Material Causality, Biology, Physics

The Form-Matter relation is that of Unity-Multiplicity.  Thus, Formal Causality can be defined as the process of unifying a multiplicity.  Likewise, Material Causality can be defined as an increase in the variety within some unity.  Thus, the standard Philosophical concept of Material Cause, originating with Aristotle, in which Matter is conceived as inert and passive, falsifies Material Causality.  As does Dialectical Materialism, which even though it conceives Matter as dynamic, still conceives it as governed by a Formal principle, i. e. Synthesis.  Now, Material Causality is an essential factor in Biology--Reproduction, Variation, Biodiversity, etc.  And so is Formal Causality, notably as unifying the parts of an Organism.  However, Physics has been dominated by either Efficient Causality or Teleological Causality.  Thus, the correct concept of Material Causality further demonstrates the inadequacy of Physics to Biology, or, equivalently, the reduction of the latter to the former.