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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.BASIC METHODOLOGIES

2.1.Predictions in the Absence of Galaxy Evolution

2.2.Evolutionary Predictions

2.3.Images from Hubble Space Telescope

3.RECENT OBSERVATIONAL RESULTS

3.1.Number Magnitude Counts

3.2.Faint Redshift Surveys

3.3.Other Probes of Luminosity Evolution

3.4.Imaging Surveys with Hubble Space Telescope

3.5.Evolutionary Constraints from Galaxy Correlation Functions

4.ADDRESSING THE MAIN ISSUES

4.1.Uncertainties in the Local Field Galaxy Luminosity Function

4.2.The Role of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

4.3.Is Number Evolution Required?

4.4.A Distinct Population of Rapidly Fading Objects?

4.5.Evidence for Mergers?

5.SURVEYS BEYOND THE SPECTROSCOPIC LIMIT

5.1.Constraints from Gravitational Lensing

5.2.The Hubble Deep Field

6.THE STAR-FORMATION HISTORY OF FIELD GALAXIES

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