Whole Earth, June 22nd, 1998
A Feeling for the Organism The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
Evelyn Fox Keller. 1993; 235 pp. $15.95. W.H. Freeman.
A good biography offers the richness of psyche in history. Keller has given us that richness. A Feeling can be read as the life story of a woman who was unfairly shunned, isolated, and questioned at many moments, but whose love of her work (the cyto-genetics of maize) was as much a vision quest as a scientific pursuit. It can be read as a history of the genome, especially the meandering meanings of "gene", and, through McClintock's eyes and Keller's writing, one of the ...
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