Ever imagined how the idea of “patriarchy” gained momentum? In this Bioneers episode: Busting the Myth of Primate Patriarchy: The Nature of Sex and Gender in Our Ape Relatives, “World-renowned primatologist Professor Frans de Waal explores the nature of sex and gender among our cousins the apes, and how gender diversity is a common and pervasive potential on nature’s masculine-feminine continuum. In the quest to overcome human gender inequality, he suggests that our focus needs to be on the inequality”.