Hi bcoop and welcome to the fray, it is always refreshing to see someone willing to learn.
To clarify a point made by others:
The point about Deleterious mutations was only that it would add more time to the process to overcome them.
In every generation there are individuals that survive to breed and those that don't.
All individuals with deleterious mutations would fall in the group of "those that don't" while those without it would be in the group of those that survive and thus they continue to reproduce unaffected.
Population growth is not affected by death if the rate of reproduction is greater than the death rate.
Enjoy.
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