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Scientists can be notoriously slow to consider new ideas that challenge accepted paradigms. In her 60-plus years as a geneticist, meticulously breeding maize plants in the field and examining the traits of their progeny through her microscope, Barbara McClintock had numerous insights that it would take the scientific community decades to accept. Not the least of which was her finding that genes can jump around the genome…

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