# Michigan State University > **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:** Institution / Evolution / Computation **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Michigan State University is a public research university with major programs in evolutionary biology and digital evolution. ## Nexus Context It became Avida’s principal institutional home, bringing computer scientists, philosophers and experimental evolutionary biologists into one research program. ## Evidence Boundary Institutional association should not be used to attribute every result to every participant; individual papers and labs supply precise provenance. ## Relationships [[wiki/Avida|Avida]], [[wiki/Charles Ofria|Charles Ofria]], [[wiki/Robert Pennock|Robert Pennock]], [[wiki/Richard Lenski|Richard Lenski]] ## Sources / Provenance - Michigan State University program and faculty records; _Nature_ 423 (2003). <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP --> ## Austin research connections [[wiki/IARPA Odin|IARPA Odin]] identifies Michigan State as a prime performer in [[wiki/Biometric Presentation Attack Detection|biometric presentation-attack detection]]. This is a separate institutional research connection from the university’s digital-evolution work already mapped here. The program separates performers developing techniques from partners responsible for testing and evaluation. **Research map:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|Master document]] <!-- END AUSTIN EXECUTABLE LOOP -->