Sheldrake’s hypothesis also offers support for the idea of a collective unconscious put forth by the eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Jung theorized that there was a pool of unconscious images and wisdom shared by all humans. Could the collective unconscious be a form of species memory, a sum of human experience that out morphogenetic field passes on to us? Does the Past Take Us Out of Our Minds?

An alternative view towards the possible nature of morphology, illustrated with the nematode family where C. elegans belongs to.