Frank Beach's research on the sexual differentiation of behavior and his struggle with the "organizational" hypothesis.
Highlights are described of Frank Beach's research contributions in the area of steroidal control of behavioral sexual differentiation in rats and beagle dogs. Beach's initial struggle with and his subsequent partial acceptance of the organizational hypothesis of steroidal action in the developing male nervous system as an explanation of these steroidal effects on behavior, advanced by W. C. Young and co-workers, is also chronicled.
Department of Biology, Boston University, MA 02215.
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D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development*; D004285:Dogs; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000502:physiology*; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones