New Insights into Platyhelminth Systematics and Evolution

Abstract

The ‘Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes’ symposium, held 14–16 July 1999 at The Linnean Society of London, UK was organised by Tim Littlewood and Rod Bray and sponsored by the Linnean Society, The Systematics Association and the British Society for Parasitology. Participants from over 24 countries convened, appropriately, at the site where the theory of evolution by natural selection was first presented in 1858. Much of the work presented will form the basis of a peer-reviewed, edited volume of the same title scheduled to appear in early 2000, published by Taylor & Francis. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of a Marshall-Sherfield Fellowship (Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, UK) during the writing of this report.