Moss and ants have horrible maps
That's not self-evident to me. They certainly have very limited maps, but I don't know if these limited maps are bad.
I agree that "limited" is a better word than "horrible".
What I meant by "horrible" is that, relative to human maps, ant maps are extremely limited; they do not represent "truth" or reality as well to the same scope or accuracy of human maps.
I think the point is that even though ant maps are limited, they can still be adaptive. Natural selection is indifferent to the scope/accuracy of a map in and of itself.
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