Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1984. 22: 185-222 Copyright © 1984 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved

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Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• THE LABORATORY
• MERGERS AND TIDAL STRIPPING: THE EVOLUTION OF cD GALAXIES
• Criteria for Identifying cD Galaxies
• Simulations of Cluster Evolution and cD Models
• Optical Observations Relevant to Merging, Accretion, and Tidal Stripping
• Summary
• THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGICAL TYPES
• A Basic Description of Galaxies
• Three Classes of Models
• LOOKING FORWARD TO LOOKING BACK
• Galaxy Color as a Function of Look-Back Time
• Verifying and Interpreting the Butcher-Oemler Effect by Spectroscopy
• REFERENCES