Abstract:The theoretical and technical updates of several research programs of vicarism historical biogeography (here as a counterpart of dispersalism historical biogeography), especially the cladistic biogeography and panbiogeography are briefly reviewed. The routinely use of molecular techniques in a broad field of historical biogeographical studies, and the rapid recognition of the theoretical and technical aspects of the phylogeography, have been the most remarkable characteristics in historical biogeography in the last decade. A prospect for the science is also briefly depicted.