# Artificial Life Journal > **Machine-Evolution Nexus:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] places this node within the history and governance of substrate-independent evolution. **Domain:** Scientific Publishing / Artificial Life **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition _Artificial Life_ is an MIT Press journal devoted to artificial systems exhibiting characteristics of living systems through software, hardware or wetware. ## Nexus Context It published Hutton’s Codd implementation, Sayama’s Evoloops work and the twenty-five-year retrospective that grounds the article’s cellular-automaton lineage. ## Evidence Boundary The journal’s scope includes simulation and synthesis; publication there does not mean every studied system is literally alive or conscious. ## Relationships [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]], [[wiki/Tim Hutton|Tim Hutton]], [[wiki/Evoloop|Evoloop]], [[wiki/Peer Review|Peer Review]] ## Sources / Provenance - MIT Press, _Artificial Life_ journal description and archives.