 He is regarded rather as a descendant of an early migration to Europe and Asia (depending on the terminology—of "Homo erectus" or "Homo heidelbergensis"), whose oldest fossils outside of Africa are about 1.8 million years old.The last descendant of this first migration to Europe was Neanderthal, who became extinct about 30,000 years ago.Members of the species "Homo sapiens" arrived in Europe only in a second migratory wave of the genus "Homo" at around 40,000 to 30,000 years ago, whose descendants include modern man.