The Origins of Forms

Plato and Aristotle seem to think that not only do animals in particular, but any number of natural things. If they have some sort of built-in tendency of growth, this teleology to it, that's explainable by the form. The monad that is the soul of the tiger is just a organizing principle of an infinite number of other monads. Infolding or shrinkage? It's number 73. This is also why there's never complete death - because what we call generation is unfolding in growth.