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I'm surprised it's taken this long for serious scientific work on this matter. Even Darwin, I believe, posited that selection pressures will drive complexity in an arbitrary direction. I.e. that an organ of arbitrary complexity could become more or less complex with time, depending on what suited the pressures. Gould writes about this in his book Full House, which was published in 1996 (and is an amazing read for anyone who loves biology AND baseball!). Progress is a myth propagated by high school textbooks.