The tree of life is actually a web

First heard of this idea ages back and it stuck in my head ever since – life is a web, not a tree…The tree of life is a web

The below is taken from https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/08/life-universe-graphene
Darwin’s tree of life is evolving. No longer do we think one creature leads to another down an ever-branching path, while at the base of everything stands Luca, the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all living things. Genetic analysis is showing that life is much more complex than that: all kinds of hidden mechanisms have allowed speciation to occur as a wandering from branch to branch. Life is a web, not a tree, which means he future of biology is much more interesting than anyone had dared to hope. Rather than just cataloguing the differences between species and looking for ways in which natural selection has acted, we can explore the plethora of mechanisms and revel in the inventiveness of life.