Last night, at the workshop dinner in the Trattoria Verdi, I got to know Horace Barlow, 86-year old great-grandson of Charles Darwin. As the most experienced researcher at the workshop, he is very noticably revered by the other participants and captivates with his sharp mind and wit. At the same time, Horace's scientific family tree shows one of the problems in science today: it's a snowball system where only very few trained scientists get to find a job in the profession they learned. So it was very exciting to meet such a famous man from such a great family, but his long and successful career is also a reminder of this general problem in science.