With the advent of 10m class telescopes, galaxy evolution and its variance with environment will be shortly disclosed observationally, from today's fully evolved nearby galaxies to the objects forming their first stars far away in space and time. While high-resolution information on the entire luminosity range of galaxies is obtainable only at z=0, less evolved, distant obects can only be observed with lower resolution, and only if they are quite luminous. Dwarf galaxies, Ims, BCDs and dEs, by far the most common yet less understood types of galaxies in the Universe can only be observed locally. Resuls obtained from low resdhift surveys will be reviewed, with particular attention to stellar population indicators on galaxy mass as well as on features of galaxies in clusters which are indicative of morphological transformations.