These scientists purportedly observed that some of these monkeys learned to wash sweet potatoes, and gradually this new behavior spread through the younger generation of monkeys-in the usual fashion, through observation and repetition. The claim is that unidentified scientists were conducting a study of macaque monkeys on the Japanese island of Koshima in 1952. The story of the hundredth monkey effect was published in Lyall Watson's foreword to Lawrence Blair's Rhythms of Vision in 1975, and spread with the appearance of Watson's 1979 book Lifetide.
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