Voice Pitch Alters Mate-choice Relevant Perception In Hunter-gatherers

Scientists Coren Apicella and David Feinberg studied preferences for voice pitch in African hunter-gatherers. While women with masculine voices were perceived to be better gatherers, men preferred feminine-voiced women as mates, reflecting a preference for youth and fertility. Masculine-voiced men were deemed better hunters and women who were not breastfeeding preferred these men as mates. Nursing women, instead, preferred feminine-voiced men.

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