"A degree in Evolution has applicability across a broad spectrum of Life Sciences."
Perhaps it has applicability if the jobs pertains to propaganda. Otherwise what does it really prepare you to do any more than a liberal arts degree? Both of which qualify people to be janitors and copy boys in most companies.
Statement like that are the reason America is losing or has lost its leadesrhip position in the Bio and Life sciences.
TToE is at basis for all research (including Genetics) in the Life Sciences.
Anyone in the Life sciences who doesn't understand TToE is a craftsman and/or practitioner only. They can never be a researcher on the leading edge of anything.
And even those practitioners will be operating by rote without understanding the underlying principles of what they are doing.