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“... worm Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In The Century of the Gene, Evelyn FoxKeller states early on that her aim is to explore the impact the human genome project (which encompasses the sequencing of genomes other than the human) has had on both biological thought and practice. It is ...”

“... under review illustrate the rewards of working both against and in synchrony with the machine. Evelyn Keller’s A Feeling for the Organism is a biography of the American plant geneticist Barbara McClintock. Studying the inheritance of maize by conventional plant-breeding methods, McClintock figured out two major genetic mechanisms years before other ...”

“... Mendelism they fought over is not the genetics of today. Radick quotes the philosopher of science Evelyn FoxKeller, who was trained in physics and molecular biology, to the effect that there’s almost nothing left in the annals of contemporary genetics of the old view of stable genes inexorably determining specific ...”

“... of Plants has an extraordinary ‘feeling for the organism’ – a phrase I take from Evelyn FoxKeller’s study of Barbara McClintock, a stand-alone plant geneticist who thought in terms of organisms as collaborative wholes at a time when everyone else saw them as masterminded by genetic codes, and who ...”

“... His relationship with the New York Times was every bit as toxic. He believed its editor, Bill Keller, was determined to treat him as a ‘source’ rather than a collaborator – which was true – and that Keller wanted to hang him out to dry, which was not true. Keller wrote a long ...”