Hi All,
Does anyone have a suggested read for population trends?
I've done some basic calculations for a population increase of a colony of 1000 souls, assuming that this is 500 couples, and that each have 5 children that survive to adulthood (this assumption based on an average, as some woudln't be couples and some would have less children, but others would have more) we end up with something like this (each line is a generation:
1000
1500
2250
3375
5063
7594
11391
17086
25629
38443
57665
86498
129746
194620
291929
437894
656841
985261
1477892
2216838
I'm likely to have the numbers wrong. The calculation is correct (I've taken death of the parents into account etc) but any suggestions would be appreciated.