I had not heard the term morphic resonance before, but I have been an advocate of the theory that if a rat in Norway learns a new trick or develops a new resistance to a strain of rat poison, a similar rat in the Philippines will do the same, almost simultaneously.
I don't know why I believe his happens, but I've had this theory for many years, and this morphic resonance bloke must have thought of it at the same time I did, which more or less proves my point.