Daniel García Martínez

Daniel García Martínez

Affiliated researcher. Paleobiology Program

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Daniel García Martínez is a Doctor in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, carrying out his doctoral thesis at the National Museum of Natural Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Markus Bastir, on the evolution of the human thoracic respiratory system through 3D Geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology. In addition to being a member of the CENIEH, he is an assistant professor at the Physical Anthropology Unit of the UCM, where he directs the Virtual Anthropology Laboratory and is director of several paleoanthropological sites such as Cueva de Los Toriles or Los Villares, located in Castilla-La Mancha. Finally, he is also involved in discovering and studying the Homo naledi species, focusing his studies on the axial skeleton (ribs and vertebrae).