Lightning and the Olduvai Gorge

I found this graphic a while back:

 

Neat, huh?!!

Have you seen 2001 – A Space Odyssey? Of course you have…

  

Is lightning the cause of the mutations that made monkeys mutate into humans or humans into monkeys? There is a tremendous flux of X and gamma radiation from lightning.

Then, there’s Oklo to consider. More natural radiation and it’s in the same latitude as the heaviest lightning.

 

Here are two old NASA lightning maps. White seems to indicate no available data.

Olduvai may have been the ‘origin of the species’ and all of this is just fun speculation.

Or is it?