The study found that genetically, all humans are pretty much the same. But, there are some differences regarding the genes that control metabolism. Might this mean that the ideal nutrition program varies from individual to individual?

Quoted: Dr Quintana-Murci found 55 genes that showed evidence of having undergone significant localised evolution.
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A further six regulated metabolism in various ways, probably in response to the different diets enjoyed by different people. (Some of these genes are of wider interest as they are involved in obesity, diabetes and hypertension.)

Quoted: New research on wrist bones of the Hobbit, a skeleton found four years ago that resembled a small version of early humans, suggests that it might be an ancient human ancestor, instead.

Quoted: Bakewell, Zhang and a colleague found that substantially more genes in chimps evolved in ways that were beneficial than was the case with human genes.
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The results could be due to the fact that over the long term humans have had a smaller effective population size compared with chimps.

Quoted: Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology Professor Daniel Lieberman said Thursday

Interesting. It *appears* that dogs console others as well...but no mention in the article.

Quoted: Dr. Frans de Waal argues that human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.
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To console another, Dr. de Waal argues, requires empathy and a level of self-awareness that only apes and humans seem to possess. And consideration of empathy quickly led him to explore the conditions for morality.

Recommended by chris.

Quoted: Amazon.com: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author: Books: Richard Dawkins by Richard Dawkins

Dotting to read later. Curious if it corroborates the 'Journey of Man' documentary.

Quoted: Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia -- Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He or she did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die.

For what it's worth...there's such a creature (Hanuman) in Hindu mythology. Although..I don't think the time periods line up.

Quoted: Early humans and chimps may have interbred to create hybrid man

Quoted: But goodwill and collaboration are as much part of the human condition as ill-will and competition. And that was a puzzle to 19th-century disciples of Charles Darwin, such as Herbert Spencer.