# @science on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPHW4qDkQ9u
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35222631-science-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-27T18:00:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

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Multiple studies have found that women usually favor masculine features, such as prominent jaws, high muscle mass, and low-pitched voices.⁠
The theory is that these traits signal a high-quality mate—for instance, it's been proposed that masculine men generally have more robust amounts of sperm. But this 2012 research revealed that, while deep voices are attractive to women, low-pitched men tended to have lower concentrations of sperm in their ejaculate.⁠
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The finding suggested that men who evolutionarily invest most of their energy into making themselves attractive to females may suffer deficiencies in other areas—in this case, sperm counts.⁠
For instance, the male hormone testosterone, which lowers voice pitch, can thwart sperm production, according to study leader Leigh Simmons, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia.⁠
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