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The goal of this chapter is to introduce developmental behavioral genetics, a subdiscipline of behavioral genetics that applies its theory and methods to the study of development. Developmental behavioral genetics provides a perspective for understanding the genetic and environmental origins of stability and change in individual differences during development.