%0 Journal Article %T Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Recent Progress %A Richard S Ellis %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %X In this series of lectures I review recent observational progress in constraining models of galaxy formation and evolution highlighting the importance advances in addressing questions of the assembly history and origin of the Hubble sequence in the context of modern pictures of structure formation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102056v1