Are human beings freaks of nature? With almost every other species, the flamboyant male’s job is to attract the dowdy female. He’ll primp, preen and even dance, competing fiercely with all the other suitors, chitting and chatting for hours, in hopes she will choose him. Not so with humans. Women are not only the more colorful of the species, they often, with their high-pitched mating call and finely attuned ear for clock ticking, appear the more desperate. The actual problem for female humans, of course, is that once the mating process is complete, they neither dismiss nor consume their mates.