The first hominid to expand successfully from Africa was Homo erectus (see ill.), a large and powerful specimen, formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus. Pithecanthropus is an extinct primate intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. African humans carry plenty of erectus genes, and the hybrid hominins prospered and spread. Sapiens migrated out of Africa and mixed with Neanderthals already living out there, resulting in Europeans with European Neanderthals and Asians with Denisovan Neanderthals. Thus, we have three different hybrids co-existing today. Evolution continues. 
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