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It also provides an indirect summary of the underlying fitness landscape, so the extent to which the DFE is conserved across species is informative about the invariance of those landscapes. Here, we infer the DFE of amino-acid-changing mutations in 38 catarrhine subspecies using site-frequency spectrum (SFS)-based methods. We find that effective population size (Ne) is the dominant axis of cross-species variation in the population-scaled DFE for deleterious mutations, with the apparent clade-level clustering of estimates explained mainly by shared Ne rather than by clade-specific effects. A quantile-based test further shows that the underlying unscaled DFE does not vary significantly across species, so differences are consistent with Ne-rescaling of a single conserved DFE. Consistent with this, the deleterious (nonadaptive) substitution rate \u03c9na declines significantly with Ne, reflecting more efficient purging of slightly deleterious mutations in larger populations. 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