About the book: year / Many people still do not understand why evolution occurs? The fact is that, if we proceed from the laws of physics, specifically, thermodynamics, then evolution cannot exist. Everything in the world ages and collapses over time. This is an indisputable fact. What kind of development is there? But it exists in Nature, and a grandiose example of development, increasing complexity over time, accumulation of information is precisely the evolution of Life on our planet. This book offers the reader a way to finally resolve this fundamental contradiction. Some new patterns discovered by the author and their application in explaining the natural increase in the complexity of organisms in evolution and its irreversibility are also described. These patterns are so general that they can be applied to the evolution of more than just organisms. For example, automata can be programmed to carry out a new evolution. Therefore, it seemed interesting to apply new ideas to the explanation of certain phenomena in social systems. The book is intended for a wide range of readers interested in problems of natural science.