Cosmic evolution of SFR (ρ_SFR, upper panels), sSFR (middle panels), and stellar mass (ρ_⋆, bottom panels) for one single parametric SFH (left panels) and a combination of two parametric SFH (right panels). The reference delayed-τ model (M1, black line) is plotted in all the panels. Gray and yellow points and gray curves are taken from the literature as explainedin the text and in the captions of Figs. 6–8.