irreducible complexity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Michael Behe in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box.
Noun[edit]
irreducible complexity (uncountable)
- (biology, pseudoscience) The proposition that complex organs such as eyes and flagella must have started existing in their current form; i.e., that they cannot have evolved from previous, less complex stages.