Deep male voices not so much sexy as intimidating

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 10:50 in Biology & Nature

Male voices are not deeply pitched in order to attract female mates, but instead serve to intimidate the competition, according to a team of researchers studying a wide variety of primates including humans. “We wanted to determine if sexual selection had produced sex differences in humans and closely related species,” said David A. Puts, associate […]

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