Reproductive Behavior by S. M. McCann (auth.), William Montagna, William A. Sadler PDF

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By S. M. McCann (auth.), William Montagna, William A. Sadler (eds.)

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Sexual compatibility among female and male companions is in­ dispensable to common and winning fertilization in mammals. hence, the genes from women and men whose sexual habit is characterised through awkwardness, ineptness, and miscues are elimi­ nated from the gene pool of the species. In human societies, this compatibility isn't constantly obtrusive; and the habit that precedes and accompanies copulation and fertilization is exceed­ ingly complicated and tormented by many variables. As in so much different species of animals, the full repertoire of reproductive habit of guy isn't good understood via guy. whilst seen, mentioned, or said, the subject is just too frequently and so much regrettably considered as an amalgam of emotion, mysticism, and biology. some time past, such emotion-charged methods to the biologi­ cal truth of replica did a lot to obfuscate the topic; and hence, a lot of the array of hormonal, neural, mental, and social variables that keep watch over and insure the winning repro­ duction of the human species is still even now in Victorian ignor­ ance. yet with the hot rash of books and medical treatises at the topic, a few development has been made in elucidating human replica and linked sexual habit. besides the fact that, so entrench­ ed are a few of our social taboos that the chance nonetheless lurks of equating social recognition of the phrases with an understandin- all too lacking--of the method to which they refer.

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Coniglio, L. , and Clemens, L. , 1974, Hormonal determinants in the development of masculine and feminine 52 Lynwood G. Clemens behavior in the female hamster, Behav. BioI. (in press). Pfaff, D. , 1970, Nature of sex hormone effects on rat sex behavior: Specificity of effects and individual patterns of response, J. Compo Physiol. Psychol. 11:349-358. Phoenix, C. , Goy, R. , Gerall, A. , and Young, W. , 1959, Organizing action of prenatally administered testosterone propionate on the tissues mediating mating behavior in the female guinea pig, Endocrinology 65:369-382.

In this instance, we determine whether the experimental treatment can restore or induce copulatory behavior. This restoration paradigm prevents facilitation of copulation by genital stimulation derived from the female until after the male begins to mount. Using this procedure, we compared the effect of androsterone and testosterone on male sexual behavior in males that had been castrated at 30 days of age. Behavior testing was initiated at 60 days of age, and hormone treatment began after four tests in which baseline mounting frequency was established.

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