The Black Informant

My wife showed me this story and smiled

(Reuters Life!) - Forget the handsome face, broad shoulders or flirty grin, a deep voice is what attracts women and makes men likely to have more children, researchers said on Tuesday.

“We think it’s sort of like a peacock’s tail,” said David Feinberg, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

“A peacock’s tail doesn’t help a peacock survive in the world at all. All it really does is it’s there to attract women. So in this case it’s testosterone which masculinizes the voice at puberty,” he said in an interview.

The study, published in the journal Biology Letters, showed that men with deep voices had greater reproductive success with women than their higher-pitched counterparts. (more…)

More children on the way! :>