[Right Wing Professor]

"Non-lethal mutation rates are usually very low-let's say 1 in a million.

That's not a rate. A rate would be 1 in a million per year, or per generation. What is the time increment?

[dawn53]

That's what the problem says...

[supercat]

That's not a rate. A rate would be 1 in a million per year, or per generation. What is the time increment?

Presumably one per million births, though I expect the number of non-fatal mutations to actually be much higher (though most of them aren't apt to be of much consequence).

It would seem that in a field of 24,000 antelopes there would be approximately 12,000 births per year. So in 1,000 years there should be 12,000,000 births. If mutations occur at a rate of one per million births, that would suggest 12 mutations.