What's does the term origin time mean in earth science

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Well depending on context it can mean different things, I could mean one of these three thing, choose the one you think is the most suitable,

(1) The birth, existence, or beginning; starting point. (2) The cause; that which causes something to arise. (3) That which acts as the source or that which from where something is derived.

one centimetre is equal to 0.01 metres

genetic variation can be caused by mutation (which can create entirely new alleles in a population), random mating, random fertilization, and recombination between homologous chromosomes during meiosis (which reshuffles alleles within an organism's offspring).