While not quite faster than a speeding bullet, the peregrine is reputed to be nature's most remarkable flying hunter, capable of diving at 200 miles an hour for a midair attack, knocking the prey out with its terrifying talons, then swooping down to catch the falling bird.
Such freedom occurred to a remarkable extent in hunter-gatherer bands, and it does also at Sudbury Valley.
What's remarkable is that our hunter-gathering ancestors resisted the temptation to club each other to death when they had the chance.
This BBC series has billed itself as "an intimate and detailed look at the remarkable strategies employed by hunters to catch their prey and the hunted to escape".
On one of their missions in 2013, the hunters make the remarkable discovery of a perfectly preserved Woolly Mammoth complete with still-fluid blood embedded in the permafrost, and the world may never be the same again.
He hoped to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was skilled in black magic, but who abstained out of Christian principle.
Last fall, I read Tracy Chevalier's absorbing historical novel Remarkable Creatures -- which stars a young fossil hunter in 19th-century England and her middle-aged, "higher class" friend.
Hunter-gatherers' egalitarianism thus becomes a remarkable political system in which the elite is normally composed of the most esteemed and admired individuals, those who bring the most to the common good while taking less for themselves.
"It's a remarkable reversal that the firm that was once the hunter has now become the hunted," said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor who now works at McCarter & English.
And in the climactic scenes of this remarkable documentary directed by the brothers Craig and Damon Foster, the filmmakers follow a hunter named Karoha Langwane in a run to the death.
The remarkable saltmarsh excavations at Goldcliff on the Severn estuary provide us with a few glimpses of how the mesolithic hunter-gatherers who lived there some 8,000 years ago might have survived.
