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The driving force in the life-cycle (youth, adult, old age) of a snail is reproduction. The stages are determined by their reproductive potential. Youth has no reproductive capacity, adult has the maximum capacity, and old age has a low capacity. In old age when the capacity declines the individual is not reproductively useful and dies.
