Ms Carmen De Miguel
BSc ( )
(University of Oviedo, Madrid, Spain)
Phd Candidate in Comparative Anatomy
 Research
officer (part time) for the Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and
Comparative Anatomy
: Comparative study of encephalization in arboreal mammals
Research interests:
Human evolution, brain evolution, encephalization, Plio-Pleistocene hominids,
origin of anatomically modern humans,
peopling of Australia, estimation of body size from fossils.
Collaborators
Carmen Cacho (Dept of Prehistory, National Archaeological Museum, Madrid,
Spain) and
Angela Franco (Dept of Medieval Archaeology, National Archaeological
Museum, Madrid, Spain)
The museum web page in Madrid is, http://www.man.es
Juan Francisco Pastor. The University of Valladolid has the web page:
http://www.uva.es/
Dr Joaquim Calderer and Jaume Bernades (Museu Diocesài Comarcal
de Solsona, Lleida, Spain, http://www.museudcsolsona.com
South Australian Museum, Human Biology. http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/
Publications
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M (1998). Encephalization of
the koala, Phascolarctos cinereus.
Australian Mammalogy 20(3): 315-320.
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M (1999). Variation in hominid
brain size: How much is due to method? (Abstract).
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 28:118.
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M (1999). Variation in hominid
body size estimates: Do we know how big our ancestors were? Perspectives
in Human Biology 4(1):(in print).
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M. (1999). Variation in hominid
brain size: How much Supplement 28:118.
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M. (1999). Variation in hominid
body size estimates: Do we know how big our ancestors were? Perspectives
in Human Biology 4(1): 65-80.
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M. (2000) Human brain growth
is not unique. A comparative study of eutherian and marsupial carnivores/omnivores
and herbivores. (Abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology,
Supplement 30:137-138.
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M. (2000). Hominid geographic
range in the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene. (Abstract). Proceedings
of the "VI Congreso of the Asociación Latinoamericana de
Antropología Biológica", Piriápolis, Uruguay,
October 2000
- De Miguel, C. & Henneberg, M. (2001). Variation in hominid
brain size: How much is due to method? Homo 52/1:3-58.
Languages:
Spanish (mother tongue), English and some Italian, French and Portuguese.
Links to areas of interest:
Member of the Biological Anthropology
and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit (BACARU)
Contact Carmen: carmen.demiguelrodriguez@adelaide.edu.au
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