More children for deeply voiced

IF YOU want to have lots of children, look for a Barry White instead of a David Beckham. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests.

Previous studies conducted by David Feinberg of McMaster University in Canada have shown women are more attracted to men with deeper voices, judging them to be older, healthier and more masculine.

Men, on the other hand, go for women with higher pitched voices because they find them more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger-sounding.

In the new study, Mr Feinberg set out to see how that attraction to deeper-voiced men affected reproduction.

To look for any relationship between voice pitch and birth rates, the researchers studied the Hadza tribe of Tanzania, one of the last true hunter-gatherer cultures. As the Hadza have no modern birth control, the researchers were able to compare birth rates without any outside influencing factors.

They found Hadza men with deeper voices had more children than those with higher voices.

This relationship could give insight into the evolution of the human voice as well as how we choose our mates.