"Berbers did not descend from any ethnic other than their own as the ethnicity is very old. The Kabyles of the hills between Algiers and Bougie, and the Shawia of the Aures Mountains are very similar to one another and may be taken as typical Berbers."
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Alfred Cort Haddon, The Races of Man and Their Distribution (1924), University Press, 1924, p. 36
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