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May 10, 2016 06:35 AM EDT

Yes, but sorry girls a new study finds out that men's deep masculine voice, like that of Tom Hardy's, were not meant to seduce or attract attention of neither the opposite sex nor a possible mate. The study came out when researchers attempted to determine a link between mating preferences with vocal pitch and to know how males pick their partners.

There were two experimental phases conducted by the research team: In the first phase, a wide review of more than 1,700 vocalizations, grunts and cries gathered from 24 species of primates including chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutans. The scientists found that the average disparity in vocal pitch between male and female voices was greater in humans compared to these varieties of primates. This new study was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The crux of the study was to look at whether low-pitched males win mating opportunities because women find them more attractive or because men are frightened off, University of Washington Professor and Co-author of the study Alex Hill said.

The second phase of the study included 175 male and 258 female students who were assigned to read a text and record it in the absence of any background noise. After the recording, all 433 sounds were played for 568 men and 558 women who rated them.

The male recordings were rated by men based on dominance and by women based on attractiveness. The female recordings were rated by men based on attractiveness by means of a standard system.

In the end of the study, researchers learned that deep male voices are apparently seen as intimidating by other men while they were not exactly seen attractive by women.

Study author and an expert from Pennsylvania State University, David Puts said, unlike the peacocks which use beautiful tail feathers to attract females, masculine traits in human males are not the same, especially with their voices.

On the other hand, Boston University's Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, who was not involved in the study, suggested that even if it provides important insight into the mating preferences of humans, it had not cleared why the pitch would matter in competitive circumstances.

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