Аннотация:I would talk about star formation in galaxies which is the main driver of their evolution. The principal concept is: stars are formed from gas, in dense molecular clouds. Then the main factor determining the current star formation rate is amount of gas. But observationally the star formation rate depends also on potential well depth, on angular momentum, on triggering by spiral density waves and by nearby supernova remnants, on outer gas accretion... It is so quite clear that the cosmic star formation history is rather complex.