... are not the Solomon Islanders. Some fine-tuning has been done and they're marked as 4%. The Ayta Magbukon "negritos" in the Philippines are 5%ers. h/t Turtle Island; Saraceni got wind of this later.
Science News prefers two or more Stone Age Denisovan populations independently reached various Southeast Asian islands, including the Philippines and [Sahul]
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My thought is that these populations mixed in the Sundaland, first. Maybe the first New Guineans / Australians were 20% Denisovan/Neander, 80% sapiens, when they first took to the low seas. Still a high proportion! But I'm not seeing the pure Dennies (or Dennie-Neander mixes) being crafty enough to get past the Sunda Strait unaided.
SULAWESI 8/26: Per Toalea in the southeast, they'd mixed on the hither side.
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