Merger fraction from the neural networks (red circles) and visual classification (blue circles) as a function of redshift. The merger fraction of the visually confirmed galaxies rises out to z ≈ 0.238 before falling slightly. The error on the redshift is the standard deviation of the redshift within the redshift bin. The error on the merger fraction is the statistical error. Merger fractions from Cotini et al. (2013, purple diamonds), Pearson et al. (2019a, green and orange triangles), Kartaltepe et al. (2007, brown stars) and Lotz et al. (2011, dot-dashed purple line) are also shown along with the merger fraction trend from the EAGLE simulation (Qu et al. 2017, solid red line), Illustris simulation (Rodriguez-Gomez et al. 2015, dashed green line), and the pair fraction trend from the EMERGE simulation (O’Leary et al. 2021, dotted blue line).