Vicariance biogeography is a new discipline, emerging from two distinct traditions in
historical biogeography. Introductions to the aims and methods of vicariance biogeography
have appeared in articles (10, 19, 40, 41, 57, 71, 85-87, 121, 124, 127-130, 145, 147, 153,
164, 165, 189, 191, 197), books (89, 131, 190), and pamphlets (132). An early critique of
vicariance biogeography came from a symposium held in New York in 1979 (reviewed by
70), and its published version (133) contains an eclectic group of papers, with discussions …