Collins also foresaw that by 2030,people would be arguing,as British physicist Stephen Hawking already is,that humans could start to take charge of their own evolution by altering their genes to improve the species.

• 科林斯同时预测，到2030年，人们会像英国物理学家斯蒂芬·霍肯现在正在做的那样来宣称人类可以通过改变基因、改善物种来掌控自身的进化。