This chapter examines the roots, development, paradigm shifts, and interdisciplinary connections of conservation biogeography. The novel approach is to prioritize the relevant developments and starting points, and the extent to which these developments change the parent discipline of conservation biology. Given the recent development of conservation biogeography, the first point is to define and examine its connections with conservation biology, biogeography, and ecology, as these disciplines form the background for conservation biogeography. This serves as a background for examining the connections between conservation biogeography and social sciences in the succeeding chapters. The origins and development of the biological sciences and conservation studies predate the official founding of the discipline of conservation biogeography, but conservation biogeography is developing from the larger disciplines of biogeography and conservation biology, from a primarily biological science to a geographical and conservation-oriented discipline, paralleling the increasing recognition of the human Impact on the environment and the birth of the concept of the Anthropocene. This contributes to the development of the discipline of conservation biogeography.