It could be latent in every one of us: Recent events show that when the chips are down, even the most civilized humans will resort to cannibalism to survive.

But the natives were that much like civilized humans.

Viewed this way, you begin to stop thinking of them as civilized humans bound to any social or moral order, even when they commit crimes.

In no way does superstitious mumbo jumbo like this apply to the lives of intelligent, civilized humans in the twenty-first century.

Ragged Men have joined in to help kill civilized humans.

Boas notes that the gulf in ability between different "primitive" and "civilized" humans is negligible compared to the gulf between humans and animals.

He reported that early civilized humans learned how to live in houses to protect their qi from the moisture that had troubled them when they lived in caves.

The Hairy Men obeyed, tens of thousands of them scrambling up from cover and falling on the clumps of civilized humans.

Surviving Hairy Men squatted on oarbenches meant for the longer, straighter limbs of civilized humans and grasped the oarlooms.

The admiral's flagship and two companion triremes still under me control of civilized humans sped away as fast as oars could drive them.