Stellar mass histograms in different redshift intervals showing the distribution of the CANDELS (red), COSMOS2020 (maroon), SHARDS/CANDELS FAINT (green), JWST/CEERS (yellow), JADES (fuchsia), CANUCS (navy), and UNCOVER (blue) surveys. Each histogram is normalized such that the total area under the curve equals 1. The solid gray histograms in the panels underneath show the distribution of the galaxies that entered our final selection, combining the previous surveys (see Sect. 3). The 16th, 50th, and 84th percentiles for each distribution are displayed as segments, color-coded following the histograms (black for our final sample). Vertical dashed lines depict the 80% mass-completeness limit of our sample (see Sect. 3.2).