1. Gender issues among primates 2. Taxonomy 3. A history and objectives of primatology 4. Survey of living primates 5. Skull 6. Brain 7. Teeth 8. Postcranial skeleton 9. Sense organs and viscera 10. Placentation and early primate development 11. Reproductive organs, reproduction and growth 12. Chromosomes and blood groups 13. Muscular primatology 14. Primate genomics 15. Conclusions with a glance of the future