Studies apes and monkeys—how they live, think, communicate, and survive.
Follows a chimpanzee group through a forest for months, recording who grooms whom, or runs memory tests with monkeys at a research center.
Estimate; competitive and mostly academic.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 10 years after high school. PhD in anthropology, psychology, or biology.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Anthropology, Biology, Psychology.
Growing about average (about 2% over 10 years). Estimate.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps code video of behavior; months following apes in forests and lab cognition studies stay human.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Psychology, French or Spanish.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-1023.
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