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Despite its intuitive appeal and broad empirical support, it has received substantial criticism over the years since it was proclaimed in the 1950s, not least because it seemed to be contradicted by the high frequency of dioecy on islands. Recent theoretical work has again questioned the generality and scope of Baker's law. Here, we attempt to discern where the idea is useful to apply and where it is not. We conclude that several of the perceived problems with Baker's law fall away when a narrower perspective is adopted on how it should be circumscribed. We emphasize that Baker's law should be read in terms of an enrichment of a capacity for uniparental reproduction in colonizing situations, rather than of high selfing rates. We suggest that Baker's law might be tested in four different contexts, which set the breadth of its scope: the colonization of oceanic islands, metapopulation dynamics with recurrent colonization, range expansions with recurrent colonization, and colonization through species invasions.<\/jats:p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Contents<\/jats:th>\n \n <\/jats:tr>\n <\/jats:thead>\n \n \n \n Summary<\/jats:td>\n 656<\/jats:td>\n <\/jats:tr>\n \n I.<\/jats:td>\n \n Introduction<\/jats:ext-link>\n <\/jats:td>\n 657<\/jats:td>\n <\/jats:tr>\n \n II.<\/jats:td>\n \n What is Baker's law, and how did it originate?<\/jats:ext-link>\n <\/jats:td>\n 658<\/jats:td>\n <\/jats:tr>\n \n III.<\/jats:td>\n \n Mate limitation during mainland\u2013island colonization<\/jats:ext-link>\n <\/jats:td>\n 660<\/jats:td>\n <\/jats:tr>\n \n IV.<\/jats:td>\n \n Mate limitation in metapopulations<\/jats:ext-link>\n <\/jats:td>\n 661<\/jats:td>\n <\/jats:tr>\n \n V.<\/jats:td>\n \n Mate limitation during species 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