The Canada-France Redshift Survey. VIII. Evolution of the Clustering of Galaxies from Z approximately 1

We have used the projected two-point correlation function, $w(r_p)$, to investigate the spatial distribution of the 591 galaxies with secure redshifts between $0 leq z leq 1.3$ in the five CFRS fields. The slope of the two-point correlation function for the sample as a whole is $gamma=1.64pm0.05$, very similar to the local slope, and $gamma$ is therefore not strongly evolving with redshift. However, the amplitude of the correlation function decreases strongly with increasing redshift, so that at $zapprox0.6$ it is a factor of 10 lower (for $q_0=0.5$) than for a similarly-selected local galaxy population, on scales $0.1