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The Architecture of Male Sex Behaviour*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Arthur Walton
Arthur Walton*
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council—Unit of Animal Reproduction, School of Agriculture, Cambridge
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Architecture may seem an ambitious description to apply to the mass of observational data and conjecture which at present constitutes our knowledge of male sex behaviour, but it is well to keep in mind the existence of a complex integrated structure, genetic in origin but modified by environment, which determines the way an animal behaves in response to a given situation. The object of this paper is to suggest some of the ground plan of this structure. I have given a few references in the text, but wish to express my indebtedness in particular to the work of Beach (1948), Milovanov & Smirnov-Ugrumov (1940), and Gunn (1936), whose writings on the subject have been of such fundamental importance.

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(1) Thirteenth Meeting: “Reproductive Behaviour in Cattle”
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1951 , Issue 1: Thirteenth Meeting , February 1950 , pp. 5 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1950

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Footnotes

*

This paper has already appeared in Proceedings of the Society for the Study of Fertility, Number 1, p. 40.

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