A new study carried out by Dr Coren Apicella, an anthropologist at Harvard University, U.S, found that females preferred males with deeper voice and males preferred higher pitched women. The researchers conducted the study on a remote tribe of hunter-gatherers in Africa, involved playing two versions of the same voice to the Hadza tribe in Tanzania.

The study author said they choose them for study because the hunter gatherers are an evolutionarily relevant population, as “they live like we lived 200,000 years ago.” For study, the researcher noted the voice preferences of 88 males and females of Hadza. They were asked to choose who would be the good hunter and to whom they would like to marry.

The research published in Proceedings of Royal Society B, suggested males thought that deeper voiced females were better hunter but for marriage they preferred higher pitched women because it suggested that they were younger and more fertile. On the other hand, women judged deep voiced males better hunter but shows no clear preference of voice for a husband. Apicella found something interesting among nursing and non-nursing women. She found that breast feeding mums preferred males with high pitched tones because it suggested that they were more caring and fertile women favored the deep voiced males.