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It is generally accepted that modern humans evolved in North Africa and spread from there to the rest of the world. As I pointed out when reviewing the Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Ilahiane, 2006) (RR 2007/205) this means that the Berbers of North Africa have some dubious claim to be the only non‐immigrant people in the world. All the rest of us are descended from immigrants. Furthermore as we noted when reviewing The Complete World of Human Evolution (Andrews, 2011) (RR 2012/265) there is clear archaeological evidence that modern humans moved into areas...