Some suggested additional readings from Katriina:

Avise, J.C. 1992. Molecular population structure and the biogeographic history of a regional fauna: a case history with lessons for conservation biology. Oikos 63: 62-76.

Avise, J.C. 1994. Molecular markers, natural history and evolution. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Avise, J.C. 1998. The history and purview of phylogeography: a personal reflection. Molec. Ecol. 7(4): 371-379.

Avise, J.C. 2000. Phylogeography: the history and formation of species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Avise, J.C., J. Arnold, R.M. Ball, E. Bermingham, T. Lamb, J.E. Neigel, C.A. Reeb, and N.C. Saunders. 1987. Intraspecific phylogeography: the mitochondrial DNA bridge between population genetics and systematics. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 8: 489-522. ('phylogeography' coined)

Diamond, J. 1999. Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies. W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., New York.

Ereshefsky, M. 2001. The poverty of the Linnaean hierarchy. Cambridge University Press, New York. (I do not agree with his conclusions (at all), but this book provides a good history of the Linnaean system)

Gould, S.J. and R.C. Lewontin. 1978. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London. 205: 581-598. (this stirred things up a bit...)

Koestler, A. 1975. The case of the midwife toad. Pan Books, Ltd., London.

Sober, E. 1988. Reconstructing the past: parsimony, evolution, and inference. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Sober, E. 2000. Philosophy of Biology. 2nd ed. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Sober, E. and D.S. Wilson. 1998. Unto others: the evolution and psychology of unselfish behaviour. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Directly related to the papers presented:

Brooks, D.R., T.B. Thorson, and M.A. Mayes, 1981. Fresh-water stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) and their helminth parasites: testing hypotheses of evolution and coevolution. Pages 147-175 in Advances in cladistics, proceedings of the first meeting of the Willi Hennig Society (V.A. Funk and D.R. Brooks, eds.). New York Botanical Garden, New York.

Lovejoy, N.R. 1996. Systematics of myliobatoid elasmobranchs: with emphasis on the phylogeny and historical biogeography of neotropical freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae: Rajiformes). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 117: 207-257.

Lovejoy, N.R. 1997. Stingrays, parasites, and neotropical biogeography: a closer look at Brooks et al.'s hypotheses concerning the origins of neotropical freshwater rays (Potamotrygonidae). Syst. Biol. 46: 218-230.

Lovejoy, N.R., E. Bermingham, and A.P. Martin. 1998. Marine incursion into South America. Nature 396: 421-422.

Thorson, T.B., D.R. Brooks, and M.A. Mayes. 1983. The evolution of freshwater adaptation in stingrays. Nat. Geog. Res. Rep. 15: 663-694.