《创造的起源The Origins of Creativity》

“社会生物学之父”两届普利策奖得主力作，首度揭示创造的根本奥秘：科学与人文的融合，才是创造的本源。

《创造的本源》是“社会生物学之父”的全新力作，首度揭示创造的根本奥秘，回答了“创造是什么？如何创造？为什么创造对人类如此重要？”等三个关键性大问题。

书中指出：创造的内涵，阻碍创造的两种思潮，促进创造的五个因素，自然与创造的三重关系，科学与人文融合的五种途径。最终提出，科学与人文的融合，才是创造的本源。

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity.

“Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences.

By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age.

Chronicling the evolution of creativity from primates to humans, Wilson shows how the humanities, in large part spurred on by the invention of language, have played a previously unexamined role in defining our species.

Exploring a surprising range of creative endeavors—the instinct to create gardens, the use of metaphors and irony in speech, the power of music and song— Wilson proposes a transformational “Third Enlightenment” in which the blending of science and humanities will enable a deeper understanding of the human condition and how it ultimately originated.