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I will present recent findings on the evolution of the properties of the progenitors of local ultra-massive galaxies over the past 11.2 billion years (i.e., since redshift z=3), along with recent results on their environment out to z=2 and of the relative role played by merging and in-situ star formation in the growth of their stellar mass content in the last 10 billion years. I will present the most recent and comprehensive census of quiescent, unobscured and dusty star-forming galaxies as a function of stellar mass since z=3. I will then show very exciting results from a spectroscopic followup programs of candidates of very massive galaxies at 1.5<z<4, along with the latest constraints on the abundance of very massive galaxies in the early universe, as the frontier is pushed into the first 1.5 Gyr of cosmic history (i.e., z>4). I will conclude by giving a preview of latest on-going observational efforts (e.g., HFFDeepSpace, NMBS-II, and others).

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