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The value of maps

Today

I started loving maps since my childhood. Over the years,
I have collected countless maps and related items. In my

office, there is a Chinese version of the world map from
096 the Ming Dynasty, the map of vampires, Hong Kong’s first 097
vegetation map, and a magnetic levitation floating globe, as

well as many others.

According to scientists' research, the brains of mammals
have a very sophisticated tracking system that leads
us through the geospatial space. However, only human

beings are able to make physical maps from information in
their mental map, this is the biggest intellectual difference
between humans and apes, according to the British author

Simon Garfield’s book On the Map: Why the World Looks
the Way It Does. After human beings produced physical
maps, they were considered as intelligent, and it marked