The effects of dry and wet merging on the Scaling Laws (SLs) of elliptical
galaxies (Es) are discussed. It is found that the galaxy SLs, possibly
established at high redshift by the fast collapse of gas-rich and clumpy
stellar distributions in preexisting dark matter halos following the
cosmological SLs, are compatible with a (small) number of galaxy mergers at
lower redshift.Comment: 1 page, no figures. Invited talk to Joint Discussion 01 "Dark Matter
in Early-Type Galaxies". To appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 15, Proc.
of the XXVIIth IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2009,
eds. L.V.E. Koopmans and T. Treu, Cambridge University Pres
