Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is Historical Biogeography? -- I. Methods in Historical Biogeography -- 1. Distribution Areas and Areas of Endemism -- 2. Center of Origin and Dispersal -- 3. Phylogenetic Biogeography -- 4. Ancestral Areas -- 5. Panbiogeography -- 6. Cladistic Biogeography -- 7. Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity -- 8. Event-Based Methods -- 9. Phylogeography -- 11. A Comparison of Methods: The Case of the Southern Beeches -- II. Topics in Historical Biogeography -- 12. Molecular Phylogenies in Biogeography -- 13. Biodiversity and Conservation Evaluations -- 14. Species Introduction -- Conclusion: A Conceptual Framework for the Future -- Appendix A: Phylogeny -- Appendix B: Software in Historical Biogeography -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index.