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  1. Hypergraphs in ecology link non-equilibrium dynamics and conservation

    Article • Communications Physics, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  2. Rethinking molecular evolution through protein language model embeddings

    Article • Trends in Genetics, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  3. Coevolution of Software and Innovation: Constraints, Tinkering, and Symbiosis

    Article • February 2026, SFI Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  4. Structural Changes in Gene Ontology Reveal Modular and Complex Representations of Biological Function

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, June 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  5. Archaeology and the Construction of Artifact Lineages: From Culture History to Phylogenetics

    Article • Biological Theory, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  6. The cultural macroevolution of arcade video games: innovation, collaboration, and collapse

    Article • Evolutionary Human Sciences, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  7. The many ways toward punctuated evolution

    Article • Palaeontology, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  8. On the multiscale dynamics of punctuated evolution

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  9. Punctuated equilibrium at 50: Anything there for evolutionary anthropology? Yes; definitely

    Article • Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  10. IS DISRUPTION DECREASING, OR IS IT ACCELERATING?

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, March 2023, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  11. Rashevsky’s dream: A physico-mathematical foundation of history and culture

    Article • Metode Science Studies Journal, February 2023, Universitat de Valencia

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  12. Composition, structure and robustness of Lichen guilds

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  13. A cultural evolutionary theory that explains both gradual and punctuated change

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, November 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  14. Dilution of expertise in the rise and fall of collective innovation

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  15. Butterfly–parasitoid–hostplant interactions in Western Palaearctic Hesperiidae: a DNA barcoding reference library

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, July 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  16. Ecological network complexity scales with area

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Christian Mulder, Dr Sergi Valverde

  17. The Natural Evolution of Computing

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  18. Imitation-driven Cultural Collapse

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  19. Neutral models are a tool, not a syndrome

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  20. Habitat loss causes long extinction transients in small trophic chains

    Article • Theoretical Ecology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  21. The long and winding road: Accidents and tinkering in software standardization

    Article • Metode Science Studies Journal, January 2021, Universitat de Valencia

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  22. Habitat loss causes long transients in small trophic chains

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  23. Mapping co-ancestry connections between the genome of a Medieval individual and modern Europeans

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  24. Coexistence of nestedness and modularity in host–pathogen infection networks

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  25. Evolving complexity: how tinkering shapes cells, software and ecological networks

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  26. A Simple Spatiotemporal Evolution Model of a Transmission Power Grid

    Article • IEEE Systems Journal, December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  27. Chromatic transitions in the emergence of syntax networks

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  28. The architecture of mutualistic networks as an evolutionary spandrel

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  29. Visualizing the Evolution of Programming Languages

    Article • Leonardo, October 2017, The MIT Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  30. Breakdown of Modularity in Complex Networks

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, July 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  31. Spatially induced nestedness in a neutral model of phage-bacteria networks

    Article • Virus Evolution, July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  32. Computational analysis of multimorbidity between asthma, eczema and rhinitis

    Article • PLOS One, June 2017, PLOS

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  33. Breakdown Of Modularity In Complex Networks

    Article • May 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  34. Spatially-induced nestedness in a neutral model of phage-bacteria networks

    Article • April 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  35. Major transitions in information technology

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  36. Emergence of proto-organisms from bistable stochastic differentiation and adhesion

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  37. Correction to ‘Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale evolution of programming languages'

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  38. The Software Crisis of Synthetic Biology

    Article • February 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  39. On Singularities and Black Holes in Combination-Driven Models of Technological Innovation Networks

    Article • PLOS One, January 2016, PLOS

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  40. BiMat: a MATLAB package to facilitate the analysis of bipartite networks

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  41. Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale evolution of programming languages

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  42. Structural determinants of criticality in biological networks

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, May 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  43. A Cultural Diffusion Model for the Rise and Fall of Programming Languages

    Article • Human Biology, January 2015, Project Muse

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  44. The Role of Colony Size on Tunnel Branching Morphogenesis in Ant Nests

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  45. EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF AN EMERGING PLANT VIRUS IN HOST GENOTYPES THAT DIFFER IN THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFECTION

    Article • Evolution, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Santiago F Elena, Dr Sergi Valverde, PhD José Manuel Cuevas

  46. Evolution of patent citation networks

    Article • June 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  47. Can a minimal replicating construct be identified as the embodiment of cancer?

    Article • BioEssays, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  48. Macroevolutionin silico: scales, constraints and universals

    Article • Palaeontology, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  49. Networks and the City

    Article • Architectural Design, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  50. Before the Endless Forms: Embodied Model of Transition from Single Cells to Aggregates to Ecosystem Engineering

    Article • PLOS One, April 2013, PLOS

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  51. The evolutionary ecology of technological innovations

    Article • Complexity, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  52. Phage–bacteria infection networks

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Matthew B Sullivan, Dr Sergi Valverde

  53. Motifs in Graphs

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  54. Multi-scale structure and geographic drivers of cross-infection within marine bacteria and phages

    Article • The ISME Journal, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  55. Evolved Modular Epistasis in Artificial Organisms

    Article • July 2012, The MIT Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  56. Understanding the complexity of IgE-related phenotypes from childhood to young adulthood: A Mechanisms of the Development of Allergy (MeDALL) Seminar

    Article • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  57. MotifsMotifs ingraphs inGraphsGraph motifs in

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  58. Convergent Evolutionary Paths in Biological and Technological Networks

    Article • Evolution Education and Outreach, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  59. Statistical structure of host–phage interactions

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  60. Discerning Electricity Consumption Patterns from Urban Allometric Scaling

    Article • February 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  61. Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution

    Article • Complexity, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  62. Emergence of Scale-Free Syntax Networks

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  63. Percolation in insect nest networks: Evidence for optimal wiring

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  64. THE ONTOGENY OF SCALE-FREE SYNTAX NETWORKS: PHASE TRANSITIONS IN EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, June 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  65. The topology of drug–target interaction networks: implicit dependence on drug properties and target families

    Article • Molecular BioSystems, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  66. MotifsMotifs in graphs in GraphsGraph motifs in

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  67. Models of Protocell Replication

    Article • November 2008, The MIT Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  68. Topological efficiency in three-dimensional gallery networks of termite nests

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  69. Data completeness—the Achilles heel of drug-target networks

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  70. The structure of gallery networks in the nests of termite Cubitermes spp. revealed by X-ray tomography

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  71. Robustness of the European power grids under intentional attack

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  72. The Topological Fortress of Termites

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  73. Fat tails, long memory, maturity and ageing in open-source software projects

    Article • January 2008, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  74. Topology and evolution of technology innovation networks

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  75. Self-organization versus hierarchy in open-source social networks

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  76. Spontaneous emergence of modularity in cellular networks

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, July 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  77. TOPOLOGICAL VULNERABILITY OF THE EUROPEAN POWER GRID UNDER ERRORS AND ATTACKS

    Article • International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, July 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  78. Crossover from endogenous to exogenous activity in open-source software development

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), January 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  79. K-scaffold subgraphs of complex networks

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), January 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  80. Are network motifs the spandrels of cellular complexity?

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  81. Self-Organization Patterns in Wasp and Open Source Communities

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  82. Topological patterns in street networks of self-organized urban settlements

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter and Quanta, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  83. Logarithmic growth dynamics in software networks

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), December 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  84. Network motifs in computational graphs: A case study in software architecture

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  85. Efficiency and robustness in ant networks of galleries

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter and Quanta, November 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  86. Information Theory of Complex Networks: On Evolution and Architectural Constraints

    Article • August 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  87. A New Science for a Connected World Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks . By Mark Buchanan. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. 236 pp. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age . By Duncan J. Watts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003...

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2004, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  88. Internet?s critical path horizon

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter and Quanta, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  89. Scale-free networks from optimal design

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), November 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  90. Selection, tinkering, and emergence in complex networks

    Article • Complexity, September 2002, Wiley

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  91. Self-organized critical traffic in parallel computer networks

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, September 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  92. Information transfer and phase transitions in a model of internet traffic

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Sergi Valverde

  93. On the Nature of Design

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sergi Valverde