Men drivers behave like cavemen

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London, Apr 21 Ever wondered why most men show more aggressiveness while driving than the fair sex? Well, a study has uncovered the reasons for their different behaviour—males are cavemen on roads. Geoffrey Beattie of Manchester University has found that the way in which men and women drive is actually a legacy of their primitive past, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday.

According to Beattie, “Our 21st-century skulls contain essentially ‘stone-age’ brains and this can help to explain the differences between the sexes in terms of their risk-proneness while driving. “Stone-age man did not drive. But the legacy of his hunting, aggressive and risk-taking past—qualities that enabled him to survive and mate, thereby passing on his genes to future generations—are still evident in the way in which he typically drives his car.”

Beattie conducted the research at the behest of a leading insurance company in Britain, in a bid to explain why its accident records varied dramatically. Unfortunately the skills needed to survive in primitive times are not best-suited for the motor car, and male drivers show significantly higher levels of rash driving as well as rule breaking.