Cosmic evolution of the major merger fraction f_MM from the local to the early Universe. Colored squares show the data collected from the literature at different cosmic times through pair counts, both with spectroscopic (de Ravel et al. 2009; López-Sanjuan et al. 2013; Tasca et al. 2014; Ventou et al. 2017) and photometric (Xu et al. 2012; Duncan et al. 2019) redshifts, and/or morphological studies (Conselice & Arnold 2009). Blue stars are the f_MM estimates found in this work. The solid black line and the shaded region are the best-fit to the data with a combined power-law and exponential function and the associated 1σ error, respectively. Finally, the solid brown line illustrates the parameterized redshift evolution (up to z = 4) of the major merger fraction from the EAGLE simulation for galaxies with log(M_*/M_⊙)> 9.5. The dashed line is just an extension of that curve to higher redshifts.