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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.VERY EARLY STAR FORMATION

2.1.Quasars at redshift 6

2.2.Galaxies at redshift 7?

3.GLOBAL EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS

3.1.Downsizing

3.2.Mass-metallicity relations

3.3.Environmental trends

4.MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

4.1.Environment and rejuvenation

4.2.E+A galaxies

5.SPIRALS AND IRREGULARS

5.1.Stellar halos of disk galaxies

5.2.Bulges of disk galaxies and formation scenarios

5.3.Disks and long-term evolutionary trends for disk galaxies

5.4.Irregulars

5.5.Star formation "demographics"