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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2. THE LABORATORY

3. MERGERS AND TIDAL STRIPPING: THE EVOLUTION OF cD GALAXIES
3.1. Criteria for Identifying cD Galaxies
3.2. Simulations of Cluster Evolution and cD Models
3.3. Optical Observations Relevant to Merging, Accretion, and Tidal Stripping
3.4. Summary

4. THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGICAL TYPES
4.1. A Basic Description of Galaxies
4.2. Three Classes of Models

5. LOOKING FORWARD TO LOOKING BACK
5.1. Galaxy Color as a Function of Look-Back Time
5.2. Verifying and Interpreting the Butcher-Oemler Effect by Spectroscopy

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