by Elio — In its early days, ca. 1945–1965, mol­e­c­u­lar bi­ol­ogy was a par­tic­u­larly col­le­gial un­der­tak­ing, char­ac­ter­ized by free shar­ing of re­search data and a rel­a­tive lack of ego­tis­ti­cal be­hav­ior. The rea­son for this mar­vel may well have been that there was so much to dis­cover – so many low hang­ing fruits – that there…