Explain why both relative dating and absolute dating are necessary to develop the fossil record.

Absolute dating method, or also known as the numerical dating, is the method of determining the specific date or range date for an artifact in number of years; whereas, relative dating method is the technique used to arrange the geological events in a sequence. Relative dating method does not give the specific dates. And these two methods are very important when determining the age and characteristic of a certain fossil.

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