BOOKS

C. Pedrós-Alió, I. M. Antón, S. Manrubia, A. Hueso-Gil, J. Gallardo, M. Cobo-Simón, M. Seoane, M. Maestro-López, P. Ortega-González, R. Torres-Pérez and R. Tenorio
Ciencia o pseudociencia. Herramientas para orientarse en un mar de información
ISBN: 978-84-18927-30-0. Plataforma Editorial, 2022 (352 pp.)







gens-i-genealogies_portadaS. Manrubia and D. H. ZanetteGenesGenealogias_Portada
Gens i genealogies. Sobre la nostra herència cultural i genòmica (Genes and genealogies. On our cultural and genomic inheritance.)
ISBN: 978-84-902-6085-2. Col.lecció Sense Fronteres, Edicions Bromera, 2013 (200 p).

S. Manrubia and D. H. Zanette
Genes y Genealogías. Sobre nuestra herencia cultural y genómica
ISBN: 978-84-370-9293-5. Colección Sin Fronteras. Cátedra de Divulgación de la Ciencia, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia, 2014 (164 p).

S.C. Manrubia, A.S. Mikhailov, and D.H. Zanette
Emergence of Dynamical Order. Synchronization Phenomena in Complex Systems
Lecture Notes in Complex Systems, Vol. 2, 360 pp., ISBN 981-238-803-6. World Scientic Publishing Co., Singapore

R.V. Solé and S.C. Manrubia
Orden y Caos en Sistemas Complejos
Col.lecció Politext, Edicions UPC, Barcelona, 1996 (594 p.)

PAPERS THAT MADE IT TO THE MEDIA…

The turning point and end of an expanding epidemic cannot be precisely forecast
Castro, M., Ares, S., Cuesta, J. A., Manrubia, S.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117,

River density and landscape roughness are universal determinants of linguistic diversity
Axelsen, J. B. and Manrubia, S.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281, 20133029 (2014)
This paper has been featured in Science 344, 340 (Rivers of Words, Editor’s Choice), in The Economist on April 23rd: Mountains high enough and rivers wide enough, and in the Danish newspaper Politiken on August 24th:
Floder og bjerge holder styr på sprog.

Suppression of viral infectivity through lethal defection
Grande-Pérez, A., Lázaro, E., Domingo, E., and Manrubia, S. C.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102, 4448-4452 (2005)
The research reported was awarded a national prize (Diario Medico, Best Scientic Ideas 2005). Related theory was featured in SINC news on April 22, 2009: Utilizan un modelo matemático para explicar extinciones víricas

Statistical properties of genealogical trees
Derrida, B., Manrubia, S.C. and Zanette, D.H.
Physical Review Letters 82, 1987-1990 (1999)
Featured in Scientific American, October 2020 (Humans are all more closely related than we commonly think), Physics World, April 1999 (Family ties), and in the Physics Bulletin of Physics News (American Institute of Physics) 428, May 14, 1999 (King Edward III).

Self-similarity of extinction statistics in the fossil record
Solé, R.V., Manrubia, S.C., Benton, M.J. and Bak, P.
Nature 388, 764-767 (21 August 1997).
Featured in New Scientist, 8 November 1997 (One law to rule them all), and in The New York Times, 2 September 1997 (Many small events may add up to one mass extinction).

Role of intermittency in urban development: A model of large-scale city formation
Zanette, D. H. and Manrubia, S.C.
Physical Review Letters 79, 523-526 (1997)
Featured in Physics World, October 1997 (Power laws for cities).