Wanted: Time to Think
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Magazine: Fall 2008
- Opinion & Analysis
- Read Time: 14 min
In her biography of the Nobel Prizewinning geneticist Barbara McClintock, Evelyn Fox Keller asks, “What enabled McClintock to see further and deeper into the mysteries of genetics than her colleagues?”1 Keller answers that McClintock was able to take the time to look and to hear what the material had to

