People! Yeah, I knew it, that Captain Obvious guy told me about it... But the mini-map also shows a bunch of other white dots that are not people, a lot of them being under the fog of war, and when I send a squad to check the area, there's nothing interesting to see... :s So... What do they represent?
Never bothered to check, but wouldn't surprise me if they weren't all naturalist survey markers.... those things flood the screen with random clutter constantly.
Does that include those burrying beetles or other invisible/disabled creature? 'Cause most of the time I sent my squads to check those dots, there was no people/wildlife/dormant obeliskians/whatever... nothing at all.