At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of science and tech stories every week.

And while most of the stuff we stumble across makes it into our articles, we also find plenty

of weird facts that we just keep around the office.

So we figured, why not share those with you?

Welcome to the weirdest thing I learned this week, from the editors of Popular Science.

I'm Rachel Feltman.

I'm Lauren Young.

I'm Angela Sainey.

Angela, welcome to the show.

It's so great to have you.

Thank you.

It's such a pleasure to be on the show.

Listeners for those of you who aren't familiar, our guest this week has written multiple,

really exceptional books.

And one of them, her latest, just came out yesterday.

So we definitely would like you to check it out.

Angela, would you tell them a little bit about it?

Yeah, it's called The Patriarchs, The Origins of Inequality.

It's inspired really by a question.

I was repeatedly asked when one of my other books was published many years ago on Sex and

Gender, which is if men haven't ruled over women forever, then how is it that societies

came to look this way?

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