In a recent review in TREE, Wilson et al. [1] aim to link success of biological invasions and the dispersal pathways of species. The authors emphasize the characteristics of human-mediated extra-range dispersal pathways (i.e. rapidity, high propagule pressure and high genetic diversity of the introduced population) in order to argue that biological invasions are, above all, a biogeographical phenomenon of unprecedented magnitude and, thus, that it would be better to separate biological invasions from ‘considerations of ecological dominance’ [1].