A tropical tree specialist could help date and identify some of the hundreds of trees at pool bottoms to assess landscape change.
Crafts's Wheelers bear a remarkable resemblance to Mr. and Mrs. John Hill Wheeler, a North Carolina couple whom Gates uses to help date and document Crafts's narrative.
The lasers and scans which identify the chemicals used in paint can help date a picture, often scuppering the claims to originality of an 'older' painting.
In such cases, identifying the writing implement can help date when both original and later text were written; paper stock can provide similar information, which must be included in annotations to any good transcription.
As you'd imagine the list covers the full spectrum of science: from heroic measures to restore the fertility of a three-footed Sumatran rhino, to a scientist creating instruments that could help date features on the Moon and Mars.
And because today's sponges and eumetazoans differ in some important genetic features, the team says, the find could also help date the first appearance of genes key to the evolution of most animals living today.
Subsequent excavations, from 1997 onwards, helped date earlier discoveries.
Observing foamy urine may help date the onset of proteinuria.
Retrospective studies with archived samples would help date the emergence of influenza D viruses and enable an understanding of their evolution.
However, the vast majority of people mate with demographically similar partners anyway, so such findings aren't especially useful in helping dating sites narrow a client's pool of potential partners.
