Major merger fraction compared to recent numerical simulations. Symbols with error bars are estimates from our MUSE sample divided into low-mass (; purple squares) and massive (> 10^9.5 M_⊙; red triangles) galaxies. The black points indicate the predictions from the HORIZON-AGN simulation (Kaviraj et al. 2015) and correspond to the pair fraction for massive galaxies () with a mass ratio between the primary and companion galaxy that is lower than 10:1. The solid lines indicate estimates from the EAGLE simulations for three galaxy stellar mass ranges. For these predictions a combined power-law and exponential fitting function, f_MM ~ a(1 + z)^be^{− c(1 + z)}, was used (see Qu et al. 2017 for details). Finally, the blue diamonds correspond to the major pair fraction for massive galaxies in the ILLUSTRIS simulation (Snyder et al. 2017).