<P> Earliest human migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents began 2 million years ago with the migration out of Africa of Homo erectus . This was followed by the migrations of other pre-modern humans including H. heidelbergensis , the likely ancestor of both anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals . Finally , the recent African origin paradigm suggests that Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa around 100,000 years ago , spread across Asia approximately 60,000 years ago , and subsequently populated other continents and islands . </P>
the first hominin species to move out of africa into other parts of the world was
Homo erectus