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by jacobsievers 1773 days ago
From the article: "Compared with Australians and Papuans, the Negritos’ Denisovan ancestry was up to 46 per cent higher..."
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sandworm101 1773 days ago
46% higher, but what total percentage of DNA is Denisovan?
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pcrh 1772 days ago
Just under 4%, figure 3D

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00977...

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Fordec 1773 days ago
46 percent higher than what? Do Australians have 0% of total? 50% of total?
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DoingIsLearning 1773 days ago
> Denisovans apparently interbred with modern humans, with about 3–5% of the DNA of Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians and around 7–8% in Papuans deriving from Denisovans. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan

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im3w1l 1773 days ago
Do they have the same 7-8%? Or one piece of the puzzle each?
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