He's a proponent of slow evolution, in which tourism can play a "minor and marginal" role.
European voyagers reversed the course of evolution, in which the plant and animal life of each continent developed in isolation.
It feels like a companion piece to 2013's New Theory of Evolution, in which Newman challenged the idea that competition drives species' development.
It clearly doesn't fit the Darwinian view of evolution, in which species are ruthlessly honed to be lean-mean-survival-machines.
The academic, who is now studying a range of other fairy tales, said: "This exemplifies a process biologists call convergent evolution, in which species independently evolve similar adaptations".
In 1930 appeared his provocative book Animal Ecology and Evolution, in which he said that "the balance of nature does not exist and perhaps never has existed".
A psychologist sets out a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution in which "replicators" -- words, beliefs and other packets of shared data -- behave as biological genes to drive human behavior.
Now, this area displays flickering signs of an industrial evolution in which Mexico's maquiladora industry moves to multimillion-dollar high-tech factories that offer skills, and even decent salaries, to workers.
And terrorism and hate crimes seem to be particularly prevalent when countries go through an evolution in which normal law enforcement is disrupted, as in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He then claims that punctuated equilibrium -- a model of evolution in which new species form over tens of thousands of years and then settle into millions of years of stasis -- was developed to solve this supposed paradox.
He called it "a pretty normal market evolution" in which "very small players will probably go away, while small to mid-sized companies will be acquired by others or go into specific niche markets where they can specialize".
