Humans evolved gradually, so there was no first woman.
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The Short Version
The core idea is sound: human evolution did not produce a single, clear-cut first human woman. Evolution works through gradual changes across populations, so there is no sharp biological moment when one female was the first fully human woman. The claim overstates slightly because named ancestral women such as mitochondrial Eve existed, but they were not the first woman and lived among many others.
Caveats
"No first woman" is accurate only for the species-boundary question; it does not rule out identifiable ancestors in other senses.
Mitochondrial Eve is often misunderstood: she was the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, not the first human woman.
Taxonomic labels such as "Homo sapiens" are scientifically useful, but the underlying evolutionary transition was gradual rather than a one-individual switch.