Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation

Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation

Previous research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated with hunting and gathering reputations in men...

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Main Authors: Kristopher M. Smith, Yevgeniy M. Olkhov, David A. Puts, Coren L. Apicella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-11-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917740466
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spelling doaj-4c88e6143dcb4984abf97b6c8d2dfcc52020-11-25T03:19:58ZengSAGE PublishingEvolutionary Psychology1474-70492017-11-011510.1177/1474704917740466Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting ReputationKristopher M. Smith0Yevgeniy M. Olkhov1David A. Puts2Coren L. Apicella3 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAPrevious research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated with hunting and gathering reputations in men and women, respectively. We find that voice pitch does relate to foraging reputation in men, but not in women, with better hunters having a lower voice pitch. In addition, we find that the previously documented relationship between voice pitch and reproductive success no longer holds when controlling for hunting reputation, but hunting reputation remains a significant predictor of reproductive success when controlling for voice pitch. This raises the possibility that voice pitch is being selected for in hunter-gatherers because of the relationship between voice pitch and hunting reputation.https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917740466
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author Kristopher M. Smith
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issn 1474-7049
publishDate 2017-11-01
description Previous research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated with hunting and gathering reputations in men and women, respectively. We find that voice pitch does relate to foraging reputation in men, but not in women, with better hunters having a lower voice pitch. In addition, we find that the previously documented relationship between voice pitch and reproductive success no longer holds when controlling for hunting reputation, but hunting reputation remains a significant predictor of reproductive success when controlling for voice pitch. This raises the possibility that voice pitch is being selected for in hunter-gatherers because of the relationship between voice pitch and hunting reputation.
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