Caught in the act: The identification of the galaxies responsible for the faint blue excess

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We summarise recent Hubble Space Telescope results on the morphology of faint field galaxies. Our two principle results are: (1) the galaxies responsible for the faint blue excess have late-type/irregular morphology and (2) the number counts of normal galaxies, ellipticals and early-type spirals, are well fit by standard no-evolution models implying that the giant population was in place and mature by a redshift of $\ge 0.7$.
To be published in Proceedings of IAU symposium 171, "New light on Galaxy Evolution", Eds.: R.Bender and R. Davies, 4 pages of gzip compressed and uuencoded postscript. Also available at http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~spd/bib.html

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