sample of publications

• articles 

  • Microbial populations hardly ever grow logistically and never sublinearly.  PHYSICAL REVIEW E.  111:044404-044412. 2025
  • Nonequilibrium microbial dynamics unveil a new macroecological pattern beyond Taylor's law.  Physical Review E.  110:1-12. 2024
  • Sparse species interactions reproduce abundance correlations patterns in microbial communities.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  121:e230957512. 2024
  • Sparse species interactions reproduce abundance correlation patterns in microbial communities.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  121:1-9. 2024
  • Stability of the personal relationship networks in a longitudinal study of middle school students.  Scientific Reports.  13:1-9. 2023
  • Entropic contribution to phenotype fitness.  Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical.  56:1-24. 2023
  • Triadic influence as a proxy for compatibility in social relationships.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  120:1-8. 2023
  • Free-energy density functional for Strauss's model of transitive networks.  PHYSICAL REVIEW E.  106:054305-1-054305-12. 2022
  • Prevalence of mutualism in a simple model of microbial coevolution.  PHYSICAL REVIEW E.  106:054401-1-054401-12. 2022
  • Chimpanzees organize their social relationships like humans.  Scientific Reports.  12:1-8. 2022
  • The long and winding road to understanding organismal construction: Reply to comments on "From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics".  Physics of Life Reviews.  42:19-24. 2022
  • Beyond Dunbar circles: a continuous description of social relationships and resource allocation.  Scientific Reports.  12:1-11. 2022
  • From genotypes to organisms: State-of-the-art and perspectives of a cornerstone in evolutionary dynamics.  Physics of Life Reviews.  38:55-106. 2021
  • Evolution of social relationships between first-year students at middle school: from cliques to circles.  Scientific Reports.  11. 2021
  • Framing in multiple public goods games and donation to charities.  Royal Society Open Science.  8:1-13. 2021
  • The turning point and end of an expanding epidemic cannot be precisely forecast.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  117:26190-26196. 2020
  • Hierarchical clustering of bipartite data sets based on the statistical significance of coincidences.  PHYSICAL REVIEW E.  102:1-12. 2020
  • Populations of genetic circuits are unable to find the fittest solution in a multilevel genotype-phenotype map.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  17. 2020
  • Redes de genotipos: los senderos de la evolución.  Investigación y Ciencia.  2020
  • Epistasis between cultural traits causes paradigm shifts in cultural evolution.  Royal Society Open Science.  7:1-16. 2020
  • Large scale and information effects on cooperation in public good games.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-10. 2019
  • Parsimonious scenario for the emergence of viroid-like replicons de novo.  Viruses-Basel.  11:425. 2019
  • Cognitive resource allocation determines the organization of personal networks.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  115:8316-8321. 2018
  • Statistical theory of phenotype abundance distributions: A test through exact enumeration of genotype spaces.  EPL.  123. 2018
  • On the networked architecture of genotype spaces and its critical effects on molecular evolution.  Open Biology.  8:1-18. 2018
  • Adding levels of complexity enhances robustness and evolvability in a multilevel genotype-phenotype map.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  15. 2018
  • Sheldon spectrum and the plankton paradox: two sides of the same coin-a trait-based plankton size-spectrum model.  JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY.  76:67-96. 2018
  • Disentangling the effects of selection and loss bias on gene dynamics.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  114:E5616-E5624. 2017
  • Enumerating secondary structures and structural moieties for circular RNAs.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  419:375-382. 2017
  • Distribution of genotype network sizes in sequence-to-structure genotype - phenotype maps.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  14. 2017
  • Adaptive multiscapes: an up-to-date metaphor to visualize molecular adaptation.  Biology Direct.  12:1-15. 2017
  • Fair linking mechanisms for resource allocation with correlated player types.  COMPUTING.  98:777-801. 2016
  • The growth threshold conjecture: a theoretical framework for understanding T-cell tolerance.  Royal Society Open Science.  2015
  • General approach for dealing with dynamical systems with spatiotemporal periodicities.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  91. 2015
  • Reputation drives cooperative behaviour and network formation in human groups.  Scientific Reports.  5:1-6. 2015
  • Evolution on neutral networks accelerates the ticking rate of the molecular clock.  Journal of the Royal Society Interface.  12 (20141010):1-11. 2015
  • toyLIFE: a computational framework to study the multi-level organisation of the genotype-phenotype map.  Scientific Reports.  4. 2014
  • Spreading of intolerance under economic stress: results from a reputation-based model.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  90:1-13. 2014
  • A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner's Dilemma experiments: Conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance.  Scientific Reports.  4:1-9. 2014
  • Gender differences in cooperation: experimental evidence on high school students.  PLoS One.  8:1-10. 2013
  • Comment on "Ratchet universality in the presence of thermal noise".  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  88:1-3. 2013
  • Time-Shift invariance determines the functional shape of the current in dissipative rocking ratchets.  Physical Review X.  3:1-10. 2013
  • Evolutionary stability and resistance to cheating in an indirect reciprocity model based on reputation.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  87:1-9. 2013
  • Three is a crowd in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: experimental evidence on reciprocal behavior.  Scientific Reports.  2:1-7. 2012
  • Local-based semantic navigation on a networked representation of information.  PLoS One.  7:1-10. 2012
  • Heterogeneous networks do not promote cooperation when humans play a Prisoner's Dilemma.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  109:12922-12926. 2012
  • Stability and robustness analysis of cooperation cycles driven by destructive agents in finite populations.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  86. 2012
  • On the coexistence of cooperators, defectors and conditional cooperators in the multiplayer iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  300:299-308. 2012
  • Generosity pays in the presence of direct reciprocity: a comprehensive study of 2x2 repeated games.  PLoS One.  7:1-12. 2012
  • Human behavior in Prisoner's Dilemma experiments suppresses network reciprocity.  Scientific Reports.  2 (Article 325). 2012
  • Individual strategy update and emergence of cooperation in social networks.  JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL SOCIOLOGY.  36:1-21. 2012
  • Disentangling categorical relationships through a graph of co-occurrences.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  84:1-8. 2011
  • Ratchet effect on a relativistic particle driven by external forces.  Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical.  44:1-10. 2011
  • Severe hindrance of viral infection propagation in spatially extended hosts.  PLoS One.  6:1-13. 2011
  • The Joker effect: cooperation driven by destructive agents.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  279:113-119. 2011
  • Crossed-ratchet effects and domain wall geometrical pinning.  PHYSICAL REVIEW B.  83:1-13. 2011
  • Species assembly in model ecosystems, I: Analysis of the population model and the invasion dynamics.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  269:330-343. 2011
  • Species assembly in model ecosystems, II: Results of the assembly process.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  269:344-355. 2011
  • Struggle for space: viral extinction through competition for cells.  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS.  106:1-4. 2011
  • Social experiments in the mesoscale: humans playing a spatial Prisoner's Dilemma.  PLoS One.  5(e13749):1-9. 2010
  • Neutral networks of genotypes: evolution behind the Curtain = Redes neutras de genotipos: evolución en la trastienda.  Arbor.  186:1051-1064. 2010
  • Catastrophic regime shifts in model ecological communities are true phase transitions.  JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT.  2010:1-20. 2010
  • Mathematics of evolution.  Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society.  76:28-37. 2010
  • Symmetries Shape the Current in Ratchets Induced by a Biharmonic driving Force.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  81:30102. 2010
  • Evolutionary Game Theory: Temporal and Spatial Effects Beyond Replicator Dynamics.  Physics of Life Reviews.  6:208-249. 2009
  • Statistical Mechanics of Ecosystem Assembly.  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS.  103. 2009
  • Effect of spatial structure on the evolution of cooperation.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  80. 2009
  • Las matemáticas de la evolución.  La Gaceta de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española.  12:667-686. 2009
  • Promotion of Cooperation on Networks? The Myopic Best Response Case.  EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B.  71:587-595. 2009
  • Phase Diagram of a Two-Dimensional Lattice Gas Model of a Ramp System.  JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS.  131. 2009
  • Smectic and Columnar Ordering in Length-Polydisperse Fluids of Parallel Hard Cylinders.  MOLECULAR PHYSICS.  107:415-422. 2009
  • The Shared Reward Dilemma on Structured Populations.  Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.  4:183-193. 2009
  • Phase Behavior of Parallel Hard Cylinders.  JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS.  128:194901. 2008
  • Fundamental-Measure Density Functional for Mixtures of Parallel Hard Cylinders.  Physical review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.  77:51205. 2008
  • The Shared Reward Dilemma.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  251:253-263. 2008
  • Emergence and Resilience of Cooperation in the Spatial Prisoner's Dilemma Via a Reward Mechanism.  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.  250:475-483. 2008

• book chapters 

  • Density Functional Theories of Hard Particle Systems. In: Theory and Simulation of Hard-Sphere Fluids and Related Systems.  SPRINGER. 247-341. 2008

• books 

  • ROMA, RAMO, AMOR: El arte de la combinatoria.  BARCELONA: EMSE EDAPP. 2019
  • Roma, ramo, amor: l'arte combinatoria.  BARCELONA: HACHETTE FASCIOLI. 2019

• conference contributions 

  • Parsimonious scenario for the emergence of viroid-like replicons de novo.  159-159. 2020
  • Adding levels of complexity enhances robustness and evolvability in a multilevel genotype-phenotype map 2018
  • Cognitive resource allocation determines the organization of personal networks.  25-25. 2018
  • Cognitive resource allocation determines the structures of personal networks 2018
  • Distribution of genotype network sizes in sequence-to-structure genotypephenotype maps 2018
  • Dynamical systems with spatiotemporal periodicities trough the symmetries 2017
  • Generic model of population dynamics and transitions between biological interactions 2017
  • Modeling paradigm shifts in cultural evolution 2017
  • Promiscuity of function, changing environments, and molecular evolution 2017
  • Modeling paradigm shifts in cultural evolution 2016
  • Neutral evolution and the acceleration of the molecular clock.  7-7. 2015
  • Reputation drives cooperative behaviour and network formation in human groups 2015
  • Fair linking mechanisms for resource allocation with correlated player types.  70-83. 2014
  • Reputation drives cooperative behaviour and network formation in human groups 2014
  • toyLIFE: un universo de juguete para comprender mejor la evolución 2014
  • Cooperation in human societies: theory and experiments.  86-87. 2013
  • Evolution on genotype networks leads to phenotypic entrapment 2013
  • Neutral evolution and phenotypic entrapment 2013
  • Neutral evolution and phenotypic entrapment 2013
  • toyLIFE: a toy Universe for gaining insight into biological evolution 2013
  • Desambiguación semántica mediante una red de co-ocurrencias 2012
  • El efecto ratchet en la partícula relativista.  64-64. 2012
  • Estocasticidad y exclusión competitiva en comunidades ecológicas 2012
  • Evolving on phenotype landscapes.  770. 2012
  • How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmas 2012
  • La corriente promedio en los "rocking ratchets" 2012
  • Network Reciprocity, Large-Scale Experiments and the Prisoners Dilemma: the Last Word 2012
  • Prevalencia de la generosidad en reciprocidad directa 2012
  • Realistic Human Behavior and Prisoners Dilemma on Networks 2012
  • There is no such thing as network reciprocity when humans play a Prisoner´s Dilemma.  6. 2012
  • Universal reciprocal behavior in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: Three is a crowd.  117. 2012
  • Universal reciprocal behavior in iterated prisoner's dilemmas: three is a crowd 2012
  • Emergence of Responsive Strategies in Iterative Games 2011
  • Emergencia de estrategias en juegos iterados con reciprocidad directa.  154. 2011
  • Evolutionary Dynamics and Conditional Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma 2011
  • Huge Progeny Production during the Transient of a Quasispecies Model of Viral Infection, Reproduction and Mutation.  1676-1681. 2011
  • Human Behavior on Networks: Lessons and Perspectives from Game Theory 2011
  • Invasion Dynamics in Iterative Games 2011
  • La lucha por el espacio: extinción viral debida a la competencia por celulas 2011
  • Prisoner's Dilemma on a Sizeable Network: An Experiment with Human Subjects.  39-39. 2011
  • Prisoner's Dilemma on a Sizeable Network: Experiment and Theory.  23. 2011
  • Replicator Dynamics for the Multiplayers Prisoner's Dilemma with "Moody" Conditional Cooperators.  97-97. 2011
  • The Struggle for Space: A New Mechanism to Viral Extinction 2011
  • An Exactly Solvable Model for Theoretical Ecosystem Assembly 2008
  • Dinámica evolutiva de ecosistemas 2008
  • Evolutionary Games and Cooperation: The Complex Effect of Population Structure 2008
  • Funcional de medidas fundamentales para mezclas de cilindros duros paralelos 2008
  • Juegos evolutivos y cooperación en poblaciones estructuradas: el papel de la estructura social y la dinámica evolutiva 2008
  • Promotion of Cooperation on Networks? The best Response Case 2008
  • Statistical Mechanics of Ecosystems 2008
  • Statistical Mechanics of Ecosystems 2008
  • Teoría de juegos evolutiva 2008
  • Teoría de juegos evolutiva 2008
  • The Complex Effect of Population Structure on the Evolution of Cooperation 2008
  • Understanding the Effect of Population Structure on the Evolution of Cooperation 2008