The 100th monkey

[Guardian]

There's a controversy over whether the 100th monkey effect actually took place in the wild. The people who wrote about it quoted a Japanese scientist but that source was not verified. Regardless, it's possible this could happen, although change would require social contact to instigate change. That would be no problem for us, as we have something called the Internet. Perhaps we do not know that people are engaging in certain types of behavior until we know what to look at?

The 100th monkey effect is real, (IE collective consciousness) whether or not the 100th monkey experiment was verified doesn't really matter.