Social behavior and the environment play a central role in the regulation of reproduction. The neuroendocrine mechanisms of fertility are modulated by social signals. Furthermore, copulation and its neuroendocrine mechanisms are dramatically affected by the environment in which mating takes place. Therefore, a study of the reciprocal interaction between behavior and physiology profits from units of analysis that are based on function in a natural environment.
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Martha K. McClintock (1983) studied this question.
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