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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION: THE PARADIGM OF GALAXY EVOLUTION

2.DISK GROWTH: THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM PROBLEM
2.1.The angular momentum catastrophe
2.2.The cosmological spin distribution and individual haloes
2.3.The tidal torque theory and the origin of the universal angular momentum distribution

3.DISK GROWTH: MERGERS
3.1.Mergers and associated processes
3.2.Dry and wet disk mergers: spheroids or rebuilding?

4.MERGERS AND THEIR SECONDARY BY-PRODUCTS
4.1.Tidal dwarfs
4.2.Polar ring galaxies and ring galaxies
4.3.'Mergers' in clusters: galaxy harassment

5.DISK GROWTH: COLD ACCRETION
5.1.The standard view and the new paradigm
5.2.Accretion shock?
5.3.Cold flows: redshift evolution
5.4.Cold flows: between the virial radius and the disk
5.5.Cold accretion flows in the phase space

6.DISK GROWTH: FEEDBACK
6.1.Bulgeless disks
6.2.What type of feedback ?
6.3.Feedback and star formation

7.HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES
7.1.The high-redshift galaxy zoo
7.2.Mass and luminosity functions

8.DISK EVOLUTION: THE CENTRAL KPC AND THE SMBHs
8.1.Bars and the morphology of the central kpc
8.2.The origin of SMBHs: the by-product of galaxy evolution ?

9.SUMMARY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

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