(Charlottesville, Va.) A University of Virginia study has found that the earliest humans also expressed anger and frustration when their mate stole all of the covers at night.
“No doubt about it. The data show that early humans got just as ticked off as people do today when their mate took all of the covers in the middle of the night,” Dr. Lewis Richardson, who led the study, said in a press release. “Cover stealers were looked down upon in early human societies just as they are today.
“The only differences our team discovered between those earliest cases and those of today is that when it happened thousands of years ago, the offending mate often found themselves kicked out of the cave or the dwelling, sometimes for good,” Richardson said.
“Now granted, there are probably a lot of people today who want to do the same thing, but we’ve become a bit more civilized,” he quipped.
