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To correct for the potential extrapolation error for ages beyond 70, the adjustment factor is selected as the ratio of a 70 year old individual's WTP to a 40 year old individual's WTP, which is 0.63, based on the Jones-Lee (1989) results and 0.92 based on the Jones-Lee (1993) results.
Instead, multiple calibrations were used from older divergences among kingdoms (plants, animals, fungi) and animal phyla, derived from analysis of 75 nuclear proteins calibrated with the vertebrate fossil record [ 38 ] . This two-step calibration reduced the error involved in extrapolation.
Indeed, simply using the normal distribution for the uncertainty from the extrapolation would make this calculation considerably more complicated.
The proportion of volume covered by this extrapolation procedure ranges from 0.1 percent to seven percent.
Because of the large amount of sequence conservation in these proteins, it was not possible to calibrate directly by extrapolation from vertebrates [ 40 ] , for which an extensive fossil record exists.