Beginning with a "boot camp" for wannabe pickup artists.where men pay thousands of dollars for three days of classroom seminars on how to get women into bed.Flam's quest for a deeper understanding of men takes her back through the evolutionary history of the human male. By placing the human male in the context of the natural world, Flam highlights some intriguing resemblances among males of all species, but also the unique challenges that men face when courting women.whether for a lifelong partnership or a onenight stand. Flam ultimately reveals that millions of years of evolution have left the love lives of humans suspended somewhere between monogamy and promiscuity, and that it is this eons-old tension between males and females that has created the modern man.