26 Sept 2007 7:00:00 am

Deep voiced men make more babies

WASHINGTON - MEN with deep voices have more children, probably because they have a wider choice of mates, according to a study released on Tuesday.
'We found that men with deep voices have more children than their high-pitched counterparts,' said Coren Apicella, a graduate anthropology student at Harvard University, who spent six months in northern Tanzania last year, studying the nomadic, hunter-gatherer Hadza people.

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 'Darwinian fitness' in humans.

'Darwinian fitness, in lay terms, means the number of children we have,' Ms Apicella said, adding that research did not find a link between voice pitch and the children's health or mortality rate.