Empiricists would agree that:
a. experience can write virtually any message on the blank slate of human nature.
b. an impulse for young mammals to play and fool around may be biologically adaptive.
c. just as a bird is designed to fly, human beings are designed to use language.
d. men are genetically wired to be promiscuous and women to be monogamous.
Answer: a
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