[Evolutionistic significance of biological form-function relationship based on the example of the shoulder-blade in...

The shoulder-blades of the monkeys are mainly constructed as a shock-absorbing platform, supporting the weight of the torso, which is hung up between the 2 forelegs in a muscle sling, composed by the M. serratus ventralis. The mobility of the arms are of less importance, although this mobility is more developed in monkeys than in other quadrupedal mammals. The shoulder-blades of the hominoids are freed from the supporting function and are mainly constructed for the mobility of the arms. Therefore all the areas are well developed, where the important arm-moving muscles originate. The constructions of the catarrhine shoulder-blades are in a very close accordance with the function. Under the modern viewpoint of scientific evolutionary theory the relation between form and function is causal and is developing in the time-space continuum. It can be shown that the thinking in categories of time, space and causality is inadequate for the understanding of the evolutionary process. The hazardness which plays an important role in the neo-darwinistic modell, where mutations occur, has to bee replaced by synchronistic phenomena. Therefore the facts of live refer empirically to the existence of the "One-beeing". According to this, evolution occurs as a psycho-physical process, which is experiencable by synchronistic phenomena in archetypical moments as a reference to a reality, which is feeling its way in a finalistic manner.