![]() Surely, think Martha and Lucy, the men in their lives would benefit from the tutelage of someone who knows how to treat a woman. During his annual visit to New York City, he rewires Lucy’s lamps, builds her shelves, and holds forth on subjects from great painters to the great outdoors, all the while pulling out chairs and opening doors for the ladies. Born and bred on his family’s West Virginia dairy farm, Cooper fits anyone’s description of a man’s man, and yet he is chivalrous and charming. And what about the extensive list of men with whom Martha has endured the torments of the first date.īut then there’s Cooper Tuckington, Lucy’s best friend from college. Or take Jesse, Martha’s younger brother, an opera aficionado and neurotic extraordinaire who can’t summon the courage to make the first move on the woman he’s crazy about. Worse still, he’s scared to go into the woods after dark. Consider Adam, Lucy’s boyfriend of two years, who demonstrates on an ostensibly romantic camping trip that he can’t build a fire, split wood, or jump-start a car. ![]() This is the question that Lucy and her best friend, Martha McKenna, struggle to answer. Why, then, are their human counterparts so hopeless in courtship? ![]() ![]() A biologist studying patterns of sexual selection, Lucy Stone knows a lot about mating–particularly that in the animal kingdom, males will go to any length to attract females. ![]()
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