Duplicate Mac contacts in Skype

In my Skype contacts, all the contacts from my Mac address book (which is a sync with my Gmail account) are duplicated.  If I untick the "show mac contacts" option in Skype, they all disappear as expected, but re-ticking that box brings them all back twice. I've searched around and seen a few others with the same problem, but no explanation or solution yet.  Any thoughts?  Anyone else experience this?

This is how contacts work at the moment. If you tick the box to see your Mac Contacts, they show up in the contact list, but they don't merge with your Skype or Facebook contacts. There are different contact groups, which you can see above the contact list itself. "Skype" will give you only Skype contacts, whereas "Address Book" will give you only AB contacts. But if you're looking at the "All" list, then yes, you will see duplicates.
More info is available here: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA10899/can-i-call-my-address-book-contacts-in-skype-for-mac-os-x

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