Harpending and Cochran's book "The 10,000 Year Explosion" was reviewed in many several academic journals, including the "American Journal of Human Biology", "Evolutionary Psychology", "Evolution and Human Behavior", "Explorations in Anthropology", and the "Journal of Anthropological Research". Reviews by Milford H. Wolpoff, Gregory Gorelik and Todd K. Shackelford, and Edward Hagen all praised the book as creative and insightful, and argue that it presents a valuable contribution to our understanding of human evolution. However, these reviewers criticized some of the book's hypotheses as not adequately supported. A pair of negative reviews by Cadell Last and Keith Hunley criticized the book for its regarding race as a biological category and for presenting an overly simplistic view of the influence of genetics on human behavioral variation.