The Tangled Field

Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control

Nathaniel Comfort

    Acknowledgments

    1 Myth

    2 Freedom

    3 Integration

    4 Pattern

    5 Control

    6 Complexity

    7 Reception

    8 Response

    9 Renaissance

    10 Synthesis

    Appendix: A Molecular Epilogue

    Notes

    Interviews

    Index

    Photographs follow page 68.

  • Cover: The Tangled Field
  • A photo of the author

Barbara McClintock in 1947 at Cold Spring Harbor, courtesy of the American Philosophical Society