Platypus

See also

'Primitive'

Resources

Ham and Thomas get their Platypus Egg-Genes Scrambled

Post by biologist R. Joel Duff on his Naturalis Historia blog with a video discussing claims made in an Answers in Genesis article by Georgia Purdom about 'missing' egg genes in the platypus. In the blog post, Duff also talks briefly about an article similar to Purdom's written by Brian Thomas for the Institute for Creation Research.

The Ancestor’s Tale

Book by Richard Dawkins.

Dawkins’s explains the misconception of the platypus being 'primitive' in ‘The Duckbill’s Tale’ in this book.

Platypus and the problem with primitive

The Platypus Fallacy

Two posts by T. Ryan Gregory on his Genomicron blog, explaining why the platypus (or any other organism) can't be considered (as a whole) 'primitive'.

Creationism and the platypus

Article by Jim Foley in the TalkOrigins Archive, dealing briefly with a number of creationist claims and misconceptions.