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description of the scientific investigations that will be enabled by the final data  products, and their importance}  \emph{6 page limit, total proposal + figures can be 11.} One of the most powerful observational tools for constraining the physics governing galaxy formation and evolution is morphology. The structural features of a galaxy are known to have close relationships with its physical properties; eg. the link between star formation rate and Hubble type (references) or spiral arms(), bars and AGN (), bars and gas fraction (), [lots more possibilities of examples.] It is known that the demographics of most morphological features are \emph{not}, in general, constant as a function of redshift. This is not surprising, given that key elements involved in the formation of galaxies are also shown to change as the Universe evolves, eg. star formation is known to peak at z~1 and drop steadily thereafter.