Abstract
In the Generation of Animals, Aristotle tries to solve a group of problems which are central both for biology and for Aristotle's philosophical system. The biologist supposes that he has made some progress toward the understanding of life if he has understood how a new life begins; Aristotle shares this concern with origins, and the explanation of animal generation also has metaphysical importance for him. Individual animals are among his paradigm cases of "entities" (ousiai); if his metaphysical system (which depends so much upon the concept of an entity) is to be validated, then the generation of an entity must be explicable within that system. He sketches the sort of explanation which he supposes must be given, in the Metaphysics:
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