He is too good a historian to go totheoppositeextreme and adopt the French vice of imposing consistent themes on inconsistent times and places, or looking for rhetorical effect in implausible analogies.
"It suggests that many of the adaptations that we currently think of, in terms of camels being adapted to warm desert-like environments, could have actually originated through adaptation to quite theoppositeextreme... cold, harsh environments, " he explained.