"Again, there is the problem of distinguishing between the hypothesis that Berbers originate from and admixture of North Africans with Europeans (and also with people from the Middle East), and a second one that Berbers are direct descendants of the North Africans, a fraction of whom settled Europe. The two hypotheses are not mutually exclusive and might both be true"
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples and Languages, Penguin, 2001, p. 88
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