Herbert G. Baker

Herbert George Baker (February 23, 1920 – July 2, 2001) was a British-American botanist and evolutionary ecologist who was an authority on pollination biology and breeding systems of angiosperms.[1] He originated Baker's law, the idea that the ability to self-fertilize should be common among species which successfully established populations through long-distance dispersal.[2]

Herbert G. Baker
Born(1920-02-23)February 23, 1920
DiedJuly 1, 2001(2001-07-01) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
American
Alma materUniversity of London (B.S., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Genetics
Ecology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral studentsSpencer C.H. Barrett
Jane Haskett Bock

Publications

  • The Genetics of Colonizing Species (1965). Edited with G. Ledyard Stebbins.
  • Plants and Civilization (1965)

References

  1. Barrett, Spencer C. H. (November 2001). "The Baker and Stebbins era comes to a close". Evolution. 55 (11): 2371–2374. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00752.x.
  2. Pannell, John R. (May 2015). "Evolution of the mating system in colonizing plants". Molecular Ecology. 24 (9): 2018–2037. doi:10.1111/mec.13087.
  3. IPNI.  H.G.Baker.


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