I would leave a little open excercise for ImagingGeek if he wants to take up the challenge.

The nasty problem I am left with he is how do we measure and define complexity or if you prefer "information left to learn" it is not going to be a simple as count genomes or anything like that because the fitness criteria imposed was complex.

In the article which basically double checked my maths

http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/information-geometry-part-11/

He tagged this into the work of John Maynard Smith which as an outsider from biology I know nothing about.

So perhaps if ImagingGeek could update us with how John Maynard Smiths work is viewed in modern biology and lets look at it from there.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.