- Professor
- Associate Curator
Ph.D., Duke University
Research interests: Biological Anthropology, Primate Ecology, and Conservation of Primates of Vietnam; Primate Evolution with a focus on adaptations and phylogeny of Eocene primates.
Curriculum Vitae PDF
Selected Publications:
- Workman C., Covert H.H. 2005. Learning the ropes: The ontogeny of locomotion in red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus), Delacour's (Trachypithecus delacouri), and Hatinh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) I. positional behavior. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 128:371-80
- Covert, H.H., Workman, C.C., and Byron, C. 2004. The EPRC as an important research center: ontogeny of locomotor differences among Vietnamese colobines. In T. Nadler, U. Streicher, and Ha Thang Long (eds.) Conservation of Primates in Vietnam. Frankfurt Zoological Society and Haki Publishing: Ha Noi, pp.121-129.
- Byron, C. and Covert, H.H. 2004 Unexpected Locomotor Behavior: brachiation by an Old World Monkey from Vietnam. Journal of Zoology, London 263:101-106.
- Covert, H.H. 2003. Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins? In C. Ross and R.F. Kay (eds) Anthropoid Origins. Kluwer Academic Press, NY, P. 129-145.
- Covert, H.H. 2002. The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians: Introduction. In W.C. Hartwig (ed) The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pp. 13-20.
- Anemone, R.L. and Covert, H.H. 2000. New skeletal remains of Omomys (Primates: Omomyidae): functional morphology of the hindlimb and locomotor behavior of a middle Eocene Primate. J. Hum. Evol. 38:607-633.
- Payseur B.A., Covert H.H., Vinyard CJ, Dagosto M. 1999. New body mass estimates for Omomys carteri, a middle Eocene primate from North America. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 109:41-52.
