Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson's highly influential book, `Creative Evolution' (`Evolution Creatrice', 1907) established a theory of evolution - called `Creative Evolution Theory' - which gained a considerable following in the first half of the 20th Century. It also helped the author to win the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his work investigating the origins of biological information and divergence in the evolutionary process.

In this work, Bergson seeks an alternative explanation as to how new forms of life emer...