<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Although the mutability of species may have appeared in paintings and trees have been used as a metaphor for other purposes (Porphyrian tree) earlier than 1800, the combination of the concept of branching evolution and the tree image did not appear before 1800 . The earliest tree of life was published by the French botanist Augustin Augier in 1801 . It shows the relationships between members of the plant kingdom . </P> <P> Jean - Baptiste Lamarck (1744--1829) produced the first branching tree of animals in his Philosophie Zoologique (1809). It was an upside - down tree starting with worms and ending with mammals . However, Lamarck did not believe in common descent of all life . Instead, he believed that life consists of separate parallel lines advancing from simple to complex . </P>

What species of tree is the tree of life