Marilyn Ferguson

I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.

American Writer

Use 'coalescence' to describe the combination of companies creating a new entity.

Business Mergers

Refers to different beliefs or plans integrating smoothly.

Ideological Unity

Can describe the blending of different cultures into a unified one.

Cultural Integration

In meteorology, it explains how raindrops form, not general weather merging.

Weather Patterns

Used by scientists and experts, may confuse everyday conversation.

Technical Term

Explains genetic merging in species and populations, not individual development.

Evolutionary Change

Used in the context of studying groups of organisms, not single organisms.

Population Studies

Highlights the role of genetic coalescence in tracing ancestral lines.

Historical Impact

 structure of the insurgency. Alpha is the distribution of the sizes of attacks, which is really the distribution of the group strength carrying out the attacks. So we look at a process of group coalescence and fragmentation,

Coalescence