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6. CONCLUSIONS

This review has high-lighted the role that interactions and mergers play in driving galaxy evolution. At present we remain challenged to understand the relative importance of weak and strong interactions, the details of bulge formation, the existence of nearly pure-disk galaxies, and the merger rate as a function of redshift. Yet, some firm conclusions have been reached and are as follows:

Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge research support from the Carnegie Institution of Washington and from the National Science Foundation under Grant AST-99 00742.

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