There’s a video going around the Internet using an illustration of monkeys in Japan that caught an innovation (washing sweet potatoes). This advance supposedly tore through some mythical “veil” in the monkey universe and the innovation hopped to another island where “boom,” those monkeys started doing it, too. The anecdote was equated with how the Reformation spread so quickly.  I did a bit of snooping about what is called the 100th Monkey Effect. The innovation in this instance actually…See More