Men with Deep Voices Have More Children
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Men with deep voices have more children, according to an American study that analyzed the relationship between voice tone and reproduction.
"We found that men with deeper voices have more children than those with higher voices," said Coren Apicella, an anthropology researcher at Harvard University, who spent six months last year in northern Tanzania studying the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Hadza tribe.
According to her observations, the researcher speculates that "the association between reproductive success and voice tone in men is probably due to their greater access to fertile women."
"But these children are not necessarily more robust, so it's not about saying that men with deep voices pass on better genes to their children, as was believed in the past," she added.
The study was conducted in collaboration with Harvard, Florida, and McMaster universities in Canada.
Coren Apicella visited nine Hadza camps and asked 49 men and 52 women from this tribe to say the word 'Hujambo' ('hello') into a microphone, she told AFP. The voice frequency was then analyzed and compared with the number of children each participant reported having. "The man with the deepest voice in the sample was the father of 10 children, nine of whom were alive, while the man with the highest voice had three children, one of whom was alive," the researcher indicated.