Herbert G. Baker

Herbert G. Baker
Born (1920-02-23)February 23, 1920
Brighton, England
Died July 1, 2001(2001-07-01) (aged 81)
Oakland, California
Nationality British
American
Alma mater University of London (B.S., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Genetics
Ecology
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral students Spencer C.H. Barrett
Jane Haskett Bock

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]

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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