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Evolution, revolution, refugees – and Neanderthal Tories
DAWN EVANS says throughout history migration has been a source of cultural and technological enrichment – our rulers' cruelty is destroying Earth's most precious resource, people
Flowers are left at the entrance at Portland Port in Dorset, following the death of an asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, December 12, 2023

THE evolution of humanity has always depended on migration, on those humans determined to risk everything to seek a better life. 

From the earliest humans during the Palaeolithic period who, 100,000 years ago, ventured out of Africa and migrated northwards, to modern-day migrants, all without exception demonstrating enormous prowess and initiative in their struggle to escape harsh and intolerable living conditions. 

It is normal, it is what humans do and have always done, it is what all life does to a greater or lesser degree. Without migration few species could evolve and life itself could not innovate or expand. 

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