Bayan mutuwar ta, McClintock ya kasance batun tarihin tarihin masanin kimiyya Nathaniel C. Comfort's The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Duk da yake tarihin Comfort ya ƙalubalanci wasu da'awar game da McClintock, wanda aka bayyana a matsayin "McClintock Myth", wanda ya yi iƙirarin cewa Keller ya ci gaba da tarihin rayuwarsa na baya. Keller Keller ya ce an yi watsi da McClintock na dogon lokaci ko kuma ya sadu da ba'a saboda ita mace ce da ke aiki a kimiyyar. Alal misali, lokacin da McClintock ya gabatar da bincikensa cewa kwayoyin halitta na masara ba su dace da rarrabawar Mendelian ba, geneticist Sewall McClintock ya bayyana cewa McClintock ba ta fahimci ilimin lissafi na aikinta ba, ya nuna imani ga wasu mata a lokacin.
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