Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Homo sapiens apparently got an immune system boost from mating with Neanderthals:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-neanderthals-early-humans-disease.html
 
... not sure if this one (also about Neanderthal DNA) is related to the foregoing ... it's pretty technical:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/06/massive-neandertal-denisovan-introgression/

Also not sure if this report on Neanderthals being 'versatile hunters' is recent or not:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2011/06/neanderthals-shifted-hunting-methods-/1

The change from hunter-gatherer to farmer apparently made our brains shrink:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-farming-blame-size-brains.html

On homo erectus' varied diet:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/first-direct-fossil-evidence-of-diet-differences?ret=/articles/list&category=science&page=1&search%5Bstatus%5D=3&search%5Bsort%5D=date+desc&search%5Bsection%5D=20&search%5Bhas_multimedia%5D=
 
Oetzi apparently had bad teeth:
http://news.discovery.com/history/oetzi-iceman-bad-teeth-110615.html

Feature on human evolution:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/19/human-evolution-africa-ancestors-stringer