Interesting. I would be willing to bet that we would refer to the proto-hominid as a plains ape. Never found in the woods.
lack of a prehensile tail would have made getting from tree to tree difficult...
Humans don’t live in the woods, nor on the plains, nor in the ocean, nor on the land.
Humans live where these thing meet - on the beach, at the edge of the woods, on the side of the mountain, ...
Always at the point of inflection, where one thing becomes another.