Peer-Reviewed Article on Transposable Elements Cites "Irreducible Complexity" and Other "Teleologic" Factors

A new peer-reviewed article in Wiley's eLS, "Transposons in Eukaryotes (Part B): Genomic Consequences of Transposition," reviews the role of transposable elements (TEs). Plant geneticist Wolf-Ekkehard Lnnig argues that "irreducibly complex" structures may defy explanation by TEs or other Darwinian factors:

A general difficulty to be mentioned in this context (but not inherent in the selfish DNA hypothesis) is that mutation and selection may not be the full explanation for the origin of specie...