Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Kubvira parufu rwake, McClintock ave ari musoro wenyaya inotaura nezvoupenyu hwake yakanyorwa nomunyori wenhau dzesayenzi Nathaniel C. Comfort's The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control. Nhoroondo yehupenyu yaComfort inopokana nezvimwe zvinotaurwa pamusoro paMcClintock, zvinotsanangurwa se "McClintock Myth", iyo yaanoti yakachengetedzwa nehupenyu hwepakutanga naKeller. Pfungwa yaKeller yakanga iri yokuti McClintock akaregeredzwa kwenguva refu kana kuti akasangana nokunyombwa nemhaka yokuti akanga ari mukadzi aishanda mune zvesayenzi. Somuenzaniso, apo McClintock akataura zvaakawana zvokuti majini omuchibage akanga asingawirirani nokuparadzirwa kwaMendelian, nyanzvi yezvinhu zvipenyu Sewall Wright akataura kuti akanga asinganzwisisi masvomhu anokosha ebasa rake, chitendero chaakanga ataura kune vamwe vakadzi panguva iyoyo. Mukuwedzera, nyanzvi yezvinhu zvipenyu nemasikirwo azvo Lotte Auerbach akarondedzera kuti Joshua Lederberg akadzoka achibva kunoshanyira rabhoritari yaMcClintock nemashoko okuti: 'Mwari, mukadzi iyeyo angave anopenga kana kuti shasha.' " Sezvinotaura Auerbach, McClintock akanga adzingisa Lederberg nevamwe vake pashure pehafu yeawa nemhaka yokudada kwavo. Akanga asingashiviriri kuzvikudza... Akanzwa kuti akanga ayambuka gwenga ari oga uye hapana akanga amutevera. " "Kunyaradza, zvisinei, kunotaura kuti McClintock aionekwa zvakanaka nevezera rake, kunyange mumakore okutanga ebasa rake. Kunyange zvazvo Comfort achitaura kuti McClintock akanga asiri munhu akabatwa nokusarurwa kwevakadzi, akanyorwa zvakawanda nezvake mumamiriro ezvinhu ezvidzidzo zvevakadzi. Mabhuku anotaura nezveupenyu hwevakadzi vakamboshanda mune zvesayenzi anotaura zvakaitika kwaari. Iye anoitwa kumusoro somunhu muenzaniso nokuda vasikana vari mabasa akadaro mabhuku vana sezvo Edith Hope Fine kuti Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize Geneticist, Deborah Heiligman kuti Barbara McClintock: Alone in Her Field uye Mary Kittredge kuti Barbara McClintock. Imwe nhoroondo youpenyu ichangobva kubudiswa yaNaomi Pasachoff, Barbara McClintock, Genius of Genetics, inopa maonero matsva, akavakirwa pamabhuku aripo. Pana May 4, 2005, United States Postal Service yakabudisa "American Scientists"...  Mubvunzo: Vangani vakapiwa mubayiro weNobel vakaratidzwa pazvitambi zveAmerican Scientists muna 1989?
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