ABSTRACT
I rst met Carlos when we both went to the Brain Research Institute at UCLA to work with Charles Sawyer in 1965. I had just nished my PhD with Danny Lehrman at the Institute of Animal Behavior (IAB) at Rutgers-Newark, in which I implanted progesterone crystals in ring dove brains. Danny and his graduate student, Rochelle Wortis, had previously shown that systemic injection of progesterone induced incubation behavior in male and female ring doves (Lehrman and Wortis, 1960). I repeated and conrmed their nding. In addition, I observed that systemically injected progesterone blocked courtship bow-cooing behavior in the male ring doves while also inducing their incubation behavior. These ndings provided two objective endpoints to observe when I implanted progesterone crystals into the brain. Danny sent me to learn how to do stereotaxic implantation of crystalline hormones in the brain with Robert Lisk at Princeton University. This was exciting to me because it was one of Danny’s lectures in the course, “Structure and Function of the Organism” (which he was teaching as a visiting professor at City College of New York, where I was an undergraduate), that Danny described Bob Lisk’s recent research in which crystals of estrogen implanted into the brain of female rats induced their sexual behavior (Lisk, 1962). I was intrigued by that research and asked Danny more about it after his lecture. During that conversation, Danny asked me if I would like to do that kind of research as his graduate student. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse! And so, in 1961, I started my doctoral studies as Danny’s student at the IAB at Rutgers University in Newark, which Danny had founded in 1958, just a few years earlier. I had zero knowledge of brain anatomy, and especially that of the ring dove brain. So Danny
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