We present a first combined analysis of the morphological and dynamicalproperties for the Intermediate MAss Galaxy Evolution Sequence (IMAGES) sample.It is a representative sample of 52 z~0.6 galaxies with Mstell from 1.5 to 1510^10Msun and possessing 3D resolved kinematics and HST deep imaging in atleast two broad band filters. We aim at evaluate robustly the evolution ofrotating spirals since z~0.6, as well as to test the different schemes forclassifying galaxies morphologically. We used all the information provided bymulti-band images, color maps and 2 dimensional light fitting to assign to eachobject a morphological class. We divided our sample between spiral disks,peculiar objects, compact objects and mergers. Using our morphologicalclassification scheme, 4/5 of identified spirals are rotating disks and morethan 4/5 of identified peculiar galaxies show complex kinematics, whileautomatic classification methods such as Concentration-Asymmetry and GINI-M20severely overestimate the fraction of relaxed disk galaxies. Using thismethodology, we find that the fraction of rotating spirals has increased by afactor ~ 2 during the last 6 Gyrs, a much higher fraction that found previouslybased on morphologies alone. These rotating spiral disks are forming stars veryrapidly, doubling their stellar masses over the last 6 Gyrs, while most oftheir stars have been formed few Gyrs earlier, which reveals the presence of alarge gas supply. Because they are likely the progenitors of local spirals, wecan conjecture how their properties are evolving. Their disks show someevidence for an inside-out growth and the gas supply/accretion is not maderandomly as the disk need to be stable in order to match the local diskproperties.
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