Deep voiced men make more babies: Study

The study, a collaborative effort between Harvard University in Massachusetts, McMaster University in Canada and Florida State University, was the first to try to determine if there is a link between voice pitch in men and 8220;Darwinian fitness8221; in humans.

8220;Darwinian fitness, in lay terms, means the number of children we have,8221; said Apicella, yesterday, who told AFP that the research did not find a link between voice pitch and the children8217;s health or mortality rate.

The mortality rate of children fathered by men with high-pitched voices was not significantly greater than that of children fathered by deep-voiced men, she said.

8220;Based on these findings, we speculate that the associations reported between reproductive success and voice pitch in men are probably mediated by greater access to fecund women,8221; the study says.

8220;It doesn8217;t seem like deep-voiced men are passing on good genes to their offspring, as has been hypothesised in the past, but probably has to do with them having greater access to women,8221; said Apicella.