Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher
Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for
Darwin's mechanism of
evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an
élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the
Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.